Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 22:31 +0200, Roberto Bagnara wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> it seems that the Parma Polyhedra Library (PPL) will be used in GCC 4.4
>> (see http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Graphite). For this reason, we are working
>> full time on the release of a new version of the library that provides
>> all the required functionality. Of course, we would like this release
>> to be as good as possible. We are especially concerned about portability:
>> even though we always made a lot of efforts in that direction, we must
>> admit that all the developers of the PPL work on IA32 or X86_64 machines
>> running GNU/Linux as shipped from only a couple of distributions.
>> For this reason, from now to the release of the new version of the PPL
>> (say, one month from now at the latest) we would like to use some of the
>> machines of the compile farm (those with an architecture/OS combination
>> different from our own machines) as build machines
>> (see http://www.cs.unipr.it/tinderbox/all_trees.panel.html, but note
>> that some of the linked pages are out of date... e.g., our only alpha
>> machine died the other day). We can of course adapt to the available
>> resources: we can run heavier or lighter tests (the machines you see
>> in the page linked above are running the heaviest tests); we can run
>> once per day or once every several days. The only things are that:
>>
>> 1) we need at least 2.5GB of disk space to run the simplest tests on
>> one machine (for the heaviest ones this goes up to 8GB);
>> 2) the build machines should be able to send mail messages to our
>> server.
>>
>> Is this feasible?
>
> Yes, on gcc30 (our alpha machine) you'll have to negociate disk
> space with other users. Here are the current /home/USER statistics
> (kiloByte):
>
> 115356 ludo
> 117900 edwin
> 371004 doko
> 603956 bagnara
> 1192264 aesok
> 1474492 tkoenig
> 3179740 vmakarov
> 6309580 ghazi
>
> Please update our wiki if you put cron on gcc30/gcc31
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm
Thanks Laurent. I will do as you suggest, and let you know
how it goes.
Cheers,
Roberto
--
Prof. Roberto Bagnara
Computer Science Group
Department of Mathematics, University of Parma, Italy
http://www.cs.unipr.it/~bagnara/
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