Re: [Sbcl-devel] Try 1.0.4.7.:-| (Re: 1.0.4.6 build failure on linux x86-64)

[Christophe R. <cs...@ca...>]

wil...@ai... (William Harold Newman) writes:

> I'd also be interested in a pointer to information about ways I could
> test such things myself. I seem to remember discussion of SourceForge
> machines available for testing such things. 

I believe that this is no longer an option, as SourceForge has shut
down their compile farm because of lack of resources.

> However, I don't remember any recent discussion, and I can't think
> of any good keywords for pulling the information out of the mailing
> list archives.

HP still has, I believe, a testdrive program (which allows development
on a variety of different arch/OS combinations); that's the only
option I know of for testing before commit, short of finding a friend
with suitable hardware.

On the other hand, I personally don't see that the occasional build
breakage on some platforms is a large problem, especially early in the
monthly cycle: that's what the nice pool of people who are willing to
try CVS is for, to report (and sometimes even fix) problems on
architectures inaccessible to an individual.

Cheers,

Christophe