* Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> schrieb: > > Well, if there're header bugs, shouldn't they get fixed before these > > libs are stabelized ? ;-O > > And there we have the thin line between actual bug and fuzzy > specification. Sometimes things fail just because two people assumed > something and thus the code disagrees in a really funny way. > Or just the GNUisms that tend to leak in through glibc+gcc ... *shudder*
hmm, do you have some concrete examples ? > > Okay, adds *10 to the test matrix. Still not yet an too complex > > problem (still linear complexity). > > So just to keep up with the current package update speed in gentoo you'd > be saturating about a dozen quadcore machines. For amd64 only. Well, I'll have to investigate further. Maybe it's time for a distributed build project: a generic container image, which gets distributed to dozens of machines and runs build tests coordinated by some server ... a bit like s...@home ;-) Enough CPU is available all around the world, just heavily distributed. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
