Re: About the "Build status for GCC 4.3" page

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave dot org>]

> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:04:05PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> I really do value the build status reports submitted by
>> others and I go searching for a few results in particular.
>> People like Joe Buck can be relied upon to post good looking
>> results for Solaris and thus I need to be able to find those
>> results easily.
>
> Actually, I used to have access to a much greater variety of
> obscure machines, so I could put together a number of interesting
> reports, but those old oddball systems have gone away, and I've
> fallen behind on that kind of testing.  I'll see if I can do a
> few more.

I think your work with Solaris is great and I use testsuite results from
you as a reference standard check.

As for obscure .. I still have a running Sparc 20 here and from time to
time I'll use it for building a software package. That pretty much assures
me that the package will run on anything from 1994 upwards with Solaris 8
or higher.

>> Is there a way perhaps to update this page automagically? Maybe even a
>> web
>> based submission form with a a backend MySQL database ? I am thinking
>> that
>> we could drum up something to make the test results more readily
>> available.
>
> We usually need a human in the loop to do quality control.

Ah yes .. I forgot about the world wide spam web.

-- 
Dennis Clarke