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Re: Why does sparc build for you? or, why are make check resultsreported when it hasn't bootstrapped since May 5?
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
- Cc: Brad Lucier <lucier at math dot purdue dot edu>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:59:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Why does sparc build for you? or, why are make check resultsreported when it hasn't bootstrapped since May 5?
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> I meant: SPARC/Solaris would bootstrap more often if people commiting
> destabilizing changes tested them on the platform. This is (almost) never the
> case.
Nice idea, difficult in practice. I've tested patches on Solaris 8
that break on 7, or work with GNU as/ld but break on native tools, or vice
versa. Then we still get bug reports for Solaris 2.6 or 2.5.1 users that
I can't reproduce on my machines.
For those and other reasons I find myself discouraged from testing on
SPARC even though I have easy access to hardware. Getting regular
contributors to test on SPARC doesn't seem too realistic.
Such is probably the case for most non-GNU platforms.
Jeff