FYI, the HP testdrive farm, http://www.testdrive.hp.com, has shared directories for most of the machines, meaning you can CVS update once and telnet in to compile for each platform.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > > > >I think the main value of a build farm is that we'd get nearly immediate > >feedback about the majority of simple porting problems. Your previous > >arguments that it wouldn't smoke everything out are certainly valid --- > >but we wouldn't abandon the regression tests just because they don't > >find everything. Immediate feedback is good because a patch can be > >fixed while it's still fresh in the author's mind. > > > > Yes, I seem to recall seeing several instances of things like "you mean > foonix version 97 1/2 has a bad frobnitz.h?" over the last 6 months. > Having that caught early is exactly the advantage, I believe. > > > > >I'm for it ... > > > > > > I'm working on it :-) > > Regarding "make distcheck" that Peter suggested I use, unless I'm > mistaken it carefully does its own configure, thus ignoring the > configure options set in the original directory. Perhaps we need either > to have the distcheck target pick up all the --with/--without and > --enable/--disable options, or to have a similar target that does that. > > Thoughts? > > cheers > > andrew > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
