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Re: branch bootstrap breakage in new DECL_RTL
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:34:55AM -0600, Robert Lipe wrote:
> Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> writes:
> >
> > Richard> A test server would have tested, found the problem,
> > Richard> and it would have taken me only minutes to correct the
> > Richard> patch -- all without making poor Robert have to track it
> > Richard> down.
> >
> > Richard> A test server that knew to make this particular check,
> > Richard> you mean.
> >
> > A test server that works as a user would work:
> >
> > cvs checkout
> > configure
> > make bootstrap
> >
> > on Robert's machine (and, in fact, on almost any machine without GNU
>
> Since that's what we instruct users to do, that's essentially what my
> machine has slavishly done (twice; once for OpenServer, once for UDK)
> each day for the last couple of years. It's downright depressing how
> often it doesn't work. One of the two targets has seen exactly one
> successful bootstrap (December 6) since September 12. It had only about
> 4,000 unexpected failures. This same target worked "as well as Linux"
> prior to that. I just haven't been able to keep up with the constant
> breakage.
Maybe you should adapt Geoff's regression tester scripts and have your
machine send nagging mail every time it breaks. I bet the reliability
would go way up.
zw