Get FFMpeg to run the FATE suite on the server and our laptops

[andymeneely]

We need to clone, configure, compile, and run the fate suite. Try to get the coverage data too.

[andymeneely]

We got this working a while ago. Have @megakevin and @nuthanmunaiah gotten this to work with getting gprof data out? We should document how we do this, or write a script for it.

[megakevin]

I did get this to run.

This is the diff on the changes to FFMpeg's configure file:

axmvse@archeology:~/ffmpeg/ffmpeg (master *%)$ git diff
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 7691742..43567c9 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3017,8 +3017,8 @@ case "$toolchain" in
TMPDIR=.
;;
gcov)

•    add_cflags  -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
  

•    add_ldflags -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
  

•    add_cflags  -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -g -pg
  

•    add_ldflags -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -pg
  

  ;;
  hardened)
  add_cflags -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-strict-overflow -fstack-protector-all

To compile FFMpeg and execute the FATE suite run:

./configure --samples=fate-suite/ --toolchain=gcov
make fate-rsync
make fate

I figure this is not the ideal place for this documentation. Where do you think we should we put this? In the repo itself? Maybe we can create a directory exclusively for documentation.

[nuthanmunaiah]

Created a HOW TO Wiki page to document instances like this.

[andymeneely]

Sweet!! thanks.

[nuthanmunaiah]

Closing this issue as we have a documented way of doing this now.