Re: [COMMITTED PATCH] Fix procfs.c compilation

[Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>]

Hi Simon,

>> Btw., I'd considered reviving the Solaris buildbots to guard against
>> this kind of issues.  However, they'd both (sparcv9 and amd64) would
>> need to be build-only: the make check phase takes 3-5 times as long as
>> the build, there are about 2500 failures and quite a number of those are
>> flakey.  I have no idea if the new buildmaster allows for such a
>> compile-only configuration, though (the previous one did).

> Having build-only builders would already be really great, I'm pretty
> sure it's possible (CCing Mark Wielaard).

I think I checked when the new buildmaster went first online, but
couldn't find anything at the time.  I've now rechecked the new config
and indeed there are quite a number of build-only configs in use.

> If you can identify a few simple and stable tests, it's possible to run
> just those (I think that's what the buildbot does even for Linux/x86
> today).  It would at least help ensure that GDB is not completely
> broken.

Seems like a good compromise between a pure build-only config and one
that runs the full testsuite, but drowns us in noise from timeouts and
flakiness.   I'll have a look.

Thanks.
	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University