On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:26:21AM +0200, David Landgren wrote:
> Hello, I've started to smoke, and I have a couple of questions.
>
> I'm smoking on FreeBSD 4.8-{RELEASE,STABLE}. configsmoke.pl says that
> -Duselongdouble and -Dusemorebits do not apply to my platform. Fair
> enough. As it is, the run with useithreads, useperlio and use64bitint
> took just over 2 hours.
>
> I could let this machine smoke for up to 16 hours a day, so I was
> wondering whether it's worth testing other combinations, usemymalloc
> comes to mind. What would be the most useful combinations?
Assuming that you're going to smoke every combination, then 2 more would
take your times up from just over 2 hours to 4*just over 8 hours.
That assuming that your "just over 2 hours" didn't involve any tests
failing, as failing tests cause the smoke system to re-run to get the
full details.
If so, then 2 more permutations is probably the most you can do, because
otherwise you're doing (at least) 16 hours, and possibly much longer if
tests fail.
usemymalloc is probably useful on FreeBSD
I'm not sure what else is - many of the other configure flags are somewhat
esoteric.
Possibly either trying with/without bincompat5005 might be interesting,
or doing threads builds with/without multiplicity
> I also plan on smoking 5.6.2 and 5.10. When I ran configsmoke.pl to
> prepare for 5.6.x it suggested that I rsync from
>
> ftp.linux.activestate.com::perl-5.8.x
> ^^^^^
>
> Is this right? Or should I y/8/6/ in the above? Or fetch from
> somewhere else? Do European mirrors exist?
It's not right, and I've no idea if ftp.linux.activestate.com::perl-5.6.x
exists (as that name)
