Re: Automated Toolchain Building and Testing

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Thu, 2013-08-29 10:34:40 +0200, Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> wrote:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> writes:
> > On Wed, 2013-08-28 23:26:29 +0800, Samuel Mi <samuel.miing@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Looks like you for now have been trying to find out a solution
> > > suitable for you to automatically build GCC from source combined with
> > > certain continuous systems like Jenkins. As a matter of fact, Jenkins
> > > is exactly a good choice to do such thing just mentioned, due to
> > > itself with so many plugins[1] you can pick up to fit your needs.
> >
> > I'm not too sure if Jenkins is actually a good choice, just because I
> > question that there's a working Java especially for old Unix-alike
> > systems that GCC still (in theory) supports. What about eg. older IRIX
> > or Ultrix systems?  ...or can you, instead of using the Java-based
> 
> I honestly wouldn't worry about such legacy systems: their respective
> maintainers take care of testing them, and it would be hard nowadays to
> even find both hardware and OS media to set up a new system.

Well, I do.

Just for example, I do care about the VAX backend. I've had something
similar to my current build robot running for a while, then it broke
(due to other circumstances) and it took me quite some time to track
down some "easter eggs" introduced in the mean time.  I'd like to
catch such things early, personally for the VAX backend, but if
possible in general.

Shouldn't be too hard to have something that dispatches commands
purely through SSH.  If there's nothing available, I'll just write it.

MfG, JBG

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