----- "Howard Chu" <h...@symas.com> wrote: > Gavin Henry wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I now have admin privs on the projects build box, so what do we need > in a build farm? > > > > I like the Samba model with the drop down to view things: > > > > > http://build.samba.org/?host=SerNet-solaris8&tree=ldb&compiler=gcc-4.2&function=Recent+Builds > > http://build.samba.org/about.html > > > > And I like that users can add their arch too: > > > > http://build.samba.org/instructions.html > > > > Code is at: > > > > http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/build_farm/ > > > > I'm happy to get everything setup but I need to know what we want. > My > > first > thoughts were to have lots of VMs on the big build box we've got, > bring the > VMs up and down when needed and compile HEAD, RE24 periodically, but > that > smoke testing would just make noise. > > > > We'll need a frontend to browse results anyway and maybe an admin > panel to > issue builds or just some admin commandline tools for pre-release > testing. > E-mails could go to a new openldap-bui...@openldap.org list or > similar. We'll > also need a tool for users to register their system/host with the > build master > to collect results and show them. And we'll need some set of standard > build > options to be uniform across platforms? > > These frontends aren't already part of the samba build farm package?
I think some of them are yes. I'll download it and check. > > I think a first pass would be to get all the infrasructure up with a > single VM > as a target. And I think adding non-Linux VMs is an obvious next step > - > FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, etc. Yes, good plan. > If QEMU was further along I'd investigate that route too for non-x86 > testing > but unfortunately it seems to be fairly limited in that respect. > (E.g., QEMU > Sparc emulation still can't boot Solaris.) Yes, true. Once the right infrastructure is complete, we should hopefully get these platforms donated etc. > > Lastly, there is also: > > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm > > It may be worth asking. I personally don't have access to any Alpha or > MIPS > systems any more, but can generally get to the others when needed. > Running > "make test" on my G1 phone is entertaining... ;-) Will check. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. OpenLDAP Engineering Team. E ghe...@openldap.org Community developed LDAP software. http://www.openldap.org/project/
