How to test strace build using Aboriginal Linux's system images. * Put a autoconf'ed strace source tree into hdc.dir/strace dir. For example, this should work: git clone https://github.com/strace/strace && cd strace && ./bootstrap * Run ./make-hdc-img.sh: it will generate ext2 image file, hdc.img, from hdc.dir/* data. This requires root for loop mount. * Download and unpack, or build from source and unpack one or more system-image-ARCH directories into this directory (the one which contains this README). * Run: ./parallel-build-hdc-img.sh system-image-DIR1 system-image-DIR2... (background it if you don't want to see "Waiting to finish" thing). This runs a strace build in several qemu virtual machines in parallel. * Observe system-image-*.log file(s) with growing log of strace build. There is no automated detection of errors for now: you need to examine logs yourself. For me, the following system images worked (tests passed/skipped/failed): system-image-armv4l - 14/14/1 (failed: stat32-v.test - wrong stat decoding, sun_path.test - libc error) system-image-armv4tl - 15/14/0 system-image-armv5l - 15/14/0 system-image-armv6l - 15/14/0 system-image-i486 - 14/14/1 (failed: count.test - grep segfault) system-image-i586 - 14/14/1 (failed: count.test - grep segfault) system-image-i686 - 14/14/1 (failed: count.test - grep segfault) system-image-mips - 15/14/0 system-image-mipsel - 15/14/0 system-image-powerpc - 13/14/2 (failed: ipc_sem.test - ipc_sem segfault) system-image-sparc - 13/14/2 (failed: ipc_sem.test - ipc_sem segfault) system-image-x86_64 - 14/15/0 And these did not: system-image-m68k - qemu-system-m68k: -M q800: Unsupported machine type system-image-mips64 - init dies before reaching /mnt/init system-image-sh4 - hdc does not mount (no support for 2 disks) To debug a build problem in one of sandboxes, change keep_hdb to "keep_hdb=true" in parallel-build-hdc-img.sh This preserves system-image-DIR1/hdb.img after the build, so you can go into system-image-DIR1 and run "HDB=hdb.img ./dev-environment.sh" to debug the problem.