[platform-testers] new resource for testers: how-to for QEMU-based environments

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

For all of you who occasionally want to test a package on an architecture
that is not x86 or x86_64:

There are now writeups on how to create a QEMU-based environment suitable
for testing packages, for many platforms. By "environment" I mean a
complete distro, including C and C++ compilers, that you can access
interactively (through a terminal window or ssh). The covered platforms are:

  * GNU/Linux on alpha, arm, arm64, hppa, m68k, mips, mips64,
    powerpc, powerpc64, ppc64le, riscv64, s390x, sparc64.

  * Linux with musl libc on arm64, ppc64le, s390x.

  * *BSD on arm, arm64, sparc, sparc64.

You find these writeups here:
  
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib/maint-tools.git;a=tree;f=platforms/environments

Additionally, there is information about other kinds of test environments here:
  
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib/maint-tools.git;a=blob;f=platforms/test-environments.txt


Brought to you by the GNU Gnulib project.

      Bruno