"the code must compile on all the arhitectures (this currently includes linux, freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, solaris >= 8; x86, ultrasparc, strongarm; gcc 2.95, 3.x, icc, sun cc >=5.3)."
How is this tested? Do all developers have access to all these platforms? Do we have a buildbot that automatically runs these tests?
Just curious.
/O
On Oct 21, 2009 at 10:01, Olle E. Johansson oej@edvina.net wrote:
"the code must compile on all the arhitectures (this currently includes linux, freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, solaris >= 8; x86, ultrasparc, strongarm; gcc 2.95, 3.x, icc, sun cc >=5.3)."
How is this tested? Do all developers have access to all these platforms? Do we have a buildbot that automatically runs these tests?
It's not. I used to do it for older ser versions, before releases.
However even if it's not tested all the time, it's a good reason to reject patches or fix someone elses code.
For example I seriously doubt that sr compiles anymore with sun cc 5.3.
Andrei
On Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009, Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul wrote:
"the code must compile on all the arhitectures (this currently includes linux, freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, solaris >= 8; x86, ultrasparc, strongarm; gcc 2.95, 3.x, icc, sun cc >=5.3)."
How is this tested? Do all developers have access to all these platforms? Do we have a buildbot that automatically runs these tests?
It's not. I used to do it for older ser versions, before releases.
However even if it's not tested all the time, it's a good reason to reject patches or fix someone elses code.
For example I seriously doubt that sr compiles anymore with sun cc 5.3.
Hi,
so perhaps we can remove this requirement from the documentation, or relax it somewhat? I also would like to ask about the gcc 2.95 requirement, its also a bit hard to test, IMHO. I have no machine available which still uses this version.
Regards,
Henning
On Oct 21, 2009 at 11:33, Henning Westerholt henning.westerholt@1und1.de wrote:
On Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009, Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul wrote:
"the code must compile on all the arhitectures (this currently includes linux, freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, solaris >= 8; x86, ultrasparc, strongarm; gcc 2.95, 3.x, icc, sun cc >=5.3)."
How is this tested? Do all developers have access to all these platforms? Do we have a buildbot that automatically runs these tests?
It's not. I used to do it for older ser versions, before releases.
However even if it's not tested all the time, it's a good reason to reject patches or fix someone elses code.
For example I seriously doubt that sr compiles anymore with sun cc 5.3.
Hi,
so perhaps we can remove this requirement from the documentation, or relax it somewhat?
We could change it to a should.
I also would like to ask about the gcc 2.95 requirement, its also a bit hard to test, IMHO. I have no machine available which still uses this version.
I think a "should" would be ok in this case too (it allows you not to test with it, but also makes it ok for somebody else to make the code gcc 2.95 ready).
The reason for keeping gcc 2.95 is that it's still in use on older stable system, it compiles very fast and the effort to make the code gcc 2.95 ready is quite small (I was able to fix everything in 1 or 2 hours).
In the future we might add clang.
Andrei
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