[OpenAFS-devel] Re: qemu arm slave for buildbot

Jason Edgecombe jason@rampaginggeek.com
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:43:02 -0400


On 11/02/2010 01:50 PM, omalleys@msu.edu wrote:
> Quoting Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>:
>
>> By all means post your failing build log (here or RT) when you get
>> errors, it's usually not too hard to figure out the problem, typically
>> missing dependencies or rules with multiple targets that can race each
>> other.  There may be things that are specific to IRIX, and in my
>> experience the race cases show up more easily on slower machines.  I
>> know that there are still some multiple targets lurking in the source,
>> but I've only been fixing them as I run into actual build errors.  It
>> might be worth cleaning the rest of them up.
>
> These race conditions don't show up as like (paraphrased) "on xxxx.o 
> file timestamp is newer then it should be, rebuilding" do they?
>
> If you really want to debug on a -slow- machine, ill send you this arm 
> image. You can watch it compile line by line and never miss a line in 
> a movie.
> :)
Well, since Sean spoke up, Sean is the one who is offering the arm 
buildbot slave. I'll look into making it a daily build.

Jason