On May 27, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Peter Wemm wrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:06 AM, David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Mon, May 26, 2008, Peter Wemm wrote:
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Birrell
writes:
I will back out the change, but I think you are making the
'universe' target
out to be more than was intended. We used to talk about tiers.
We seem to have
lost sight of that.
No, architecture tiers is about code how well the code runs, make
universe is simply a way to keep it compiling.
sparc64 and sun4v share userland. The sparc64 in universe overs 99%
of the compile test for sun4v already.
It seems a shame to compile sparc64 userland twice for universe.
And
on that note, do we compile i386 twice for i386 and pc98?
I might find myself more inclined to use 'universe' if it had less
duplicated work.
I've always thought it would be nice to have a stripped-down
version of make universe (make galaxy?) that compiled for a
representative sample of platforms, and with only one or two
kernels per platform instead of 3 or 4 or 5. For small changes,
this represents a better tradeoff in time spent compiling vs. the
cost of things breaking occasionally. For actively developed
platforms, breaking the build wastes lots of people's time; for
everything else, there's tinderbox.
"make tier1" ? (Stuff which must not be broken)
"make tier2" etc.
These are bad ideas, because people *WILL* do the absolute minimum
and as such will end up breaking non-tier1 platforms even more
often than they do already.
People need to remember that maintainers of non-tier1 platforms
spend most of their time fixing problems that can easily be dealt
with by the 300+ developers not worrying about non-tier1 (as it
hardly ever requires in-depth knowledge of the platform). For the
non-tier1 maintainers this is a *BIG* waste of their time...
FYI,
--
Marcel Moolenaar
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