V3: SPARC bug and tree freeze

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> writes:

    Robert> <<We already run thousands of tests before checkin,
    Robert> including C, C++, Fortran, and library tests.  That
    Robert> already takes hours for many people; glibc takes about
    Robert> that same amount of time to build, even on a fast machine.
    >>>

    Robert> But couldn't the needed testing be distributed on several
    Robert> machines with appropriate robots, and run in parallel. I
    Robert> know I am coming late to this discussion, but it does not
    Robert> seem workable for the tree to get this broken to me.

Sure, we could do the mozilla-like server farm automated
test-before-checkin thing.  Who's going to provide those machines?
How do we avoid the political issues that are arising out of
gcc.gnu.org's current affiliation?  I have no objection to such a
system, but we can't ask people to build glibc locally before every
checkin; that's crippling.

Also, I don't think the tree is that badly broken -- failing to
compile glibc could indicate one failure, or many.  I suspect a very
few.

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