From: Peter V. E. <pva...@de...> - 2005-05-02 06:43:21
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Christophe Rhodes wrote: > Sorry, I wasn't clear. What I'm suggesting is that Peter, for Debian > packaging, maintains as part of the Debian .diff.gz a patch which > disables failing tests on platforms for which a .deb is built: at > least for those tests which really ought not to fail, such as the > foreign test. Seeing the amount of pain I'm getting with the limited self-testing that sb-bsd-sockets involves I'm not certain that I want to have more testing being done. As a test across platforms that buildds suck: inconsistent build environment, bad error reporting, no manual intervention, etc. So the only thing that you are testing is if the system has enough marbles, yes? > OK, so I guess the next thing to do is to ask Peter to re-enable the > mips and mipsel platforms in his packaging, and we'll see if the > buildds complain... Peter? Well. As there is no stable sbcl for mips at the moment. So I was thinking of using an alternative build strategy that would solve most problems: 1 build a sbcl with clisp (version 2.33) 2 build a new sbcl with the generated sbcl 3 use this second generation sbcl as "final" version. This would eliminate the build-depends on sbcl, make possible the new version for mips and provide a minimal build-time test (step 2). How does that sound? Should I do a third step building another sbcl with the second generation sbcl, or is the second generation version equivalent with the N'the generation one? Groetjes, Peter |