What to do with 'make check'?

[mwoehlke]

I am shortly going to try running 'make check' on about 10-12 platforms, 
but I have a few questions...

1. I should be able to get root access to all the build machines, but 
they are not my machines... how safe is running 'make check' as root?

2. I am expecting a number of failures. How should I report these? Post 
the entire 'make check' output, just the names of the failed tests, or 
something in-between? Is there other information (besides the build 
platform, obviously!) I should provide? I.e. to what extent will I have 
to chase down bugs myself (or should I post results first, and go from 
there)?

3. How important are the local-file-system tests? Running them will be 
more complicated if I have to find local drive space to build and run 
the tests (and will hurt my ability to automate the process).

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Matthew
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