Re: Buildfarm coverage (was Re: OK, ready for RC1 or Beta6)

Tom/all,

I have setup the following running debian linux. MIPS, MIPSEL, ALPHA, PARISC, M68K, ARM, SPARC, I386.  I have the 
build farm running local and I have just started to get the systems registered.  I am also willing to aquire other 
hardware/ operating systems in an effort to give something back to the Postgresql community

Jim



---------- Original Message -----------
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:20:48 -0500
Subject: Buildfarm coverage (was Re: [HACKERS] OK, ready for RC1 or Beta6)

> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > 1. Buildfarm doesn't yet have that many platforms on it.
> 
> It's not as bad as all that.  Our current list of supported platforms
> (ie, things that got tested last time) is
> 
>     AIX
>     Free/Open/NetBSD    covered by buildfarm
>     HPUX            used daily by moi
>     IRIX
>     Linux            covered by buildfarm
>     OS X            tested pretty often by moi
>     Solaris            covered by buildfarm
>     Tru64
>     UnixWare
>     Windows/Cygwin        covered by buildfarm
> 
> With respect to hardware it's
> 
>     x86            covered by buildfarm
>     ia64
>     x86_64            covered by buildfarm
>     ARM
>     Alpha
>     MIPS            covered by buildfarm
>     m68k
>     PA-RISC            used daily by moi
>     PPC            tested pretty often by moi
>     RS6000            isn't this same as PPC?
>     S/390
>     Sparc            covered by buildfarm
> 
> Considering that we have both 32- and 64-bit, little- and big-endian
> hardware in there, most of the basic hardware gotchas are covered;
> the only thing I think is at much risk is the spinlock assembler code,
> which we change seldom.
> 
> Where the buildfarm falls down a bit is on the cross-product coverage.
> But I think you're not going to get the cross product without a call for
> port reports; there aren't that many people who are going to offer
> dedicated time on every random platform there is.
> 
> It would be nice to get an Alpha into the buildfarm, and PPC too.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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