On Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 7:41 AM Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 08:53:44AM +0200, Richard Biener via Gcc wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM Andrew Pinski via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
> wrote:
> > > I think we should have a requirement of the bare minimum for a port is
> a
> > > maintainer.
> > > I also vote to have a testresults for the target at least once a year.
> >
> > Having testresults also shows the port builds (as a cross at least) and
> is
> > able to build its target libraries.  IMO broken ports are worse than
> > unmaintained ones, esp. if we release with those.
> >
> > Ideally we'd have build bots with publically visible results that
> > test the building part (doesn't have to run often), this should
> > include building cross-binutils, newlib/glibc/avr-libc as fit.
> > Before releasing I'd auto-deprecate all broken configs, I'd expect
> > maintainers to analyze such failures (they might be bot issues).
> > Having testresults would be secondary (but nice), that includes
> > running the runtimes testsuite.
> >
> > That said, I'd like to move away from gcc-testresults as a vetting
> > tool to something more modern.
>
> If the port has a (qemu) emulator we could create a x86_64 container
> for it and run it once a month/week on one of the faster
> builder.sourceware.org workers.
>
> https://sourceware.org/cgit/builder/tree/README
> https://sourceware.org/cgit/builder/tree/builder/containers
>
> Are there any ports that can be tested that way? And does someone have
> a description (or script) of such a (cross) build that we could turn
> into a x86_64 container build?
>

For which architectures? We might have one if RTEMS ever ran on it.

--joel

>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>

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