On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 13:01 -0400, Writer, Tim wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23 2010, Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 12:54 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > > Just to be sure, I am not advocated to compile under 64 bit *and* to > > use the produced driver library. It's to prevent build failure and > > allow compile testing for some types of changes. > > That seems bizarre and perhaps dangerous to me. Imagine an automated > packing system running on x86_64, building and packing iX86 > binaries. With this arrangement, it will silently fail, producing and > packaging binaries that appear to be okay but fail to run on Geode LX. > > In my view, building on x86_64 for iX86 should either succeed in > producing fully functional binaries or fail noisily. > > Your use case (of testing partial compilation while knowingly producing > an incorrect build) seems to be a specialized use rather than the common > case. While I understand your rationale for wanting it to work, I'm > concerned about making it work at the expense of introducing surprises > that may bite a much wider audience. >
I don't disagree with you in principle. It took me a while to figure out the release flow of X.Org. Only source code is produced, so the O/S or distros builders cherry pick the packages. For example, Mac O/S do not use any of the drivers, SUN will only use a subset, Linux will not use drivers that only works on SUN and so on. There is no risk of seeing a geode driver shipped on Solaris. Those who are building the whole 240 packages is a special case indeed. There is a small percentage of build and code maintenance that is done on a batch of packages (e.g. 50 video drivers). The more packages that build on mainstream platforms like Linux/Solaris the better it is. I don't want to force the issue. I am under the assumption that there would be no impact at all for the geode developers. I can live with status quo. > Tim >
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