On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/03/13 22:08, Konstantin Serebryany wrote:
>>
>> We need
>> a) patches that we can review and apply to the llvm repository (w/o
>> breaking the modern systems, of course)
>> b) a buildbot that would run 24/7 catching regressions.
>>
>> If we reach a green state for a platform X and have a buildbot for it,
>> keeping it green will require relatively small effort.
>> Every time we break it we will notice it in minutes and fix quickly
>> while we still have the same context fresh.
>> Fixing old systems once in few months during merge to gcc is costly
>> because failures accumulate.
>
> I'm well overbooked already.  However, if you have x86/x86_64 systems in
> your build farm that can be virtualized,

Unfortunately we don't.
In case anyone wants to provide their build machines and maintain a
bot on them here are the instructions
(Evgeniy and Alexey in CC may be able to help)

--kcc

> I can help set up a suitable VM.
> CentOS 5.x is old enough to trigger lots of interesting problems, but is
> still in widespread use.
>
> Jeff
>
>

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