On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:24:27AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:17:58PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > FYI, I am running a wanna-build database for hurd-i386, kfreebsd-i386 > > and kfreebsd-amd64 on my home server, and running three build daemons, > > two for kfreebsd-i386 (yes, contrary to some official architectures we > > have buildd redundancy), and one for kfreebsd-amd64. And that for almost > > 2 years. > > Aren't you running emulated buildds for m68k too? Or was that someone else?
No, that was Bill Allombert. > _That_, imo, is awesome both for demonstrating emulated buildds work, and > reviving m68k... Assuming I'm not confused. Not really, in this case -- at least not without context. Bill is using ARAnyM because he doesn't have actual hardware that could be used. In his tests, however, an ARAnyM buildd is running slower than actual live m68k hardware. Perhaps a different emulator could help (ARAnyM's main goal is to emulate the Atari platform; that is a goal which is not always compatible with "providing the fastest possible emulation"), but such an emulator currently doesn't exist (and the ARAnyM developers are more than happy to help in fixing bugs related to running Linux on ARAnyM). Bill's greatest achievement, however, is to prove beyond doubt that doing distcc actually works. Since Debian gcc packages now also support building crosscompilers, my most important personal objections to this in the past (that the crosscompiler might be too divergent from the actual compiler running on the port itself; that building a crosscompiler could turn out to be impossible on crucial moments, such as when the ABI changes incompatibily and all compilers *must* be upgraded) is now also addressed. Using distcc doesn't solve everything, however; it only speeds up compilation of software written in languages that can be compiled using gcc compilers. Packages that need to run large test suites, or that need to do a lot of linking, or that first compile a small binary and then use that binary to compile their other 5M of source code all still need a lot of time to finish compiling, even with distcc. It is, however, progress. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
