new automated testing facility now operational

[Michael Meissner]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 04:30:02PM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > 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.

Well d10v/d30v aren't yet in the FSF tree, and v860 is really v850.  I suspect
the z8k is rather dead.

> 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>

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