new automated testing facility now operational

[Geoff Keating]

> Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@cygnus.com>
> Organization: Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat Company

> On Mar 30, 2000, Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am now running a service which automatically and continuously tests
> > th GCC CVS archive whenever a commit is made, and sends mail to the
> > people making the commit if a regression is detected.
> 
> Cool!  Could it Cc: some mailing list?  gcc-bugs, or some other
> created specifically for this purpose?

It should.  I think it should be a new list since the messages are
automated and relatively frequent.

> > Instead, it builds a cross compiler to the target 'powerpc-eabisim'.
> 
> It would be nice to have a couple of different targets, instead of
> just powerpc-eabi, and we could hold the state of the last build on
> each target.

I chose powerpc-eabi because it was the most stable target which had a
freely available simulator.  The other targets that have simulators
are arm, d10v, d30v, erc32, fr30, h8300, h8500, i960, m32r, mcore,
mips, mn10200, mn10300, sh, v860, w65, and z8k; of those, I think
i960, mips, arm, and sh are also reasonable targets to try running
tests with.

At the moment, though, I have no spare machines and would like to
start small, with just one target.  Maybe in a month or two, it can be
extended.  I'd really like to test on a less-RISC chip, perhaps i960?

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>