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To: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgresql Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Build farm
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:10:49 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
FYI, the HP testdrive farm, http://www.testdrive.hp.com, has shared
directories for most of the machines, meaning you can CVS update once
and telnet in to compile for each platform.
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >
> >I think the main value of a build farm is that we'd get nearly immediate
> >feedback about the majority of simple porting problems. Your previous
> >arguments that it wouldn't smoke everything out are certainly valid ---
> >but we wouldn't abandon the regression tests just because they don't
> >find everything. Immediate feedback is good because a patch can be
> >fixed while it's still fresh in the author's mind.
> >
>
> Yes, I seem to recall seeing several instances of things like "you mean
> foonix version 97 1/2 has a bad frobnitz.h?" over the last 6 months.
> Having that caught early is exactly the advantage, I believe.
>
> >
> >I'm for it ...
> >
> >
>
> I'm working on it :-)
>
> Regarding "make distcheck" that Peter suggested I use, unless I'm
> mistaken it carefully does its own configure, thus ignoring the
> configure options set in the original directory. Perhaps we need either
> to have the distcheck target pick up all the --with/--without and
> --enable/--disable options, or to have a similar target that does that.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
>
>
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