[FFmpeg-devel] FATE is yellow

[Ramiro Polla]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 01:12:03PM +0200, ?smail D?nmez wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Baptiste Coudurier
>> <baptiste.coudurier at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 11/28/10 2:50 AM, ?smail D?nmez wrote:
>> >> For at least two days, FATE is yellow on all platforms:
>> >> http://fate.ffmpeg.org/?dsort=date , looks like
>> >> h264-conformance-frext-frext_mmco4_sony_b test is failing. Can someone
>> >> please either revert the offending commit or update the regtest so it
>> >> passes?
>> >
>> > I don't know how to run fate tests nor how to update it :/
>>
>> Running fate is really easy.
>>
>> 0. Get the test suite:
>>
>> rsync -avL rsync://rsync.mplayerhq.hu:/samples/fate-suite samples
>>
>> 1. Configure with --samples:
>>
>> ./configure --samples=/path/to/samples
>>
>> 2. Run fate
>>
>> make fate
>>
>> I am not sure how you do update expected values though.
>
> The expected values are just stored in tests/ref/fate/*.

Adding this to the documentation (how to run fate and update refs)
would be nice. Running fate is already in build_system.txt but it's
somewhat terse.