Hi Zach, I appreciate your response!
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 7:49 AM Zachary Ware <z...@python.org> wrote: > Hi Ethan, > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 8:35 AM Ethan Smith <et...@ethanhs.me> wrote: > > I'm reposting this because it seems to have been eaten by the moderation > > filter because I subscribed incorrectly and Mailman thought I wasn't a > > member of the list (sorry mailing list admins!). > > It's a low-volume list with "guilty until proven innocent" moderation > :). Your first message made it through, but whoever approved it > didn't have time to properly respond (and I haven't had such a chance > either). > Yeah I was mostly concerned because I didn't see my own posts showing up on the archive yesterday. I seem to have found a bug in mailman where I can simultaneously be a member and not a member of the list, so... trying to sort that one out :) > > > I am working with a small group of people to port CPython to Emscripten > > (and maybe eventually WASI). I currently have a repo here where we run a > > build against CPython main branch nightly > > https://github.com/ethanhs/python-wasm, but I think it is time to set > up a > > buildbot for Emscripten. > > Great! > > > I have set up a VM on a server I run with 4 cores and 4GB of memory (the > > docs note the large memory tests require more than 512MB, but don't say > how > > much the large memory tests take). > > Our resource suggestions are probably rather out of date, but mostly > just from a speed perspective. For example, my `ware-gentoo-x86` > worker has only 2 GB of RAM. It doesn't run all of the bigmem tests, > but it's still effective if rather slow. > Ok, that's good to know. Since there are two builds to do I expect this may be a slower build bot unfortunately :/ > > > Just to make sure I understand the process, since Emscripten is unlike > the > > other builders in that it uses a custom toolchain, it looks like I will > > need to modify the buildbot code to add an EmscriptenBuild? How does > > development on the buildmaster work? Is there any way to easily test it > > locally? Also any suggestions on how to handle cross compiling in the > > configuration? We need a second build for freezing modules. > > You're blazing new trails here, so I'm afraid you're largely going to > be on your own. Our build master configuration can be found at > https://github.com/python/buildmaster-config/ and the bits you'll most > likely need to add to are in > > https://github.com/python/buildmaster-config/blob/main/master/custom/factories.py > and > https://github.com/python/buildmaster-config/blob/main/master/custom/builders.py > . > It should (hopefully, it's been a while since I tried :)) be > relatively straightforward to get a copy of the master running locally > to test against. > Ok that's great to hear! I'll play around with running a master and try working on a useful worker config then :) > > Feel free to make whatever PR(s) you need, and hopefully one of us > will get a chance to review quickly. I can't make any guarantees > about my own availability to review, but I will do my best to answer > any other questions you have. > Thank you, I really appreciate it! I'll probably poke at things a bit and come back with questions if I have any, then hopefully make a PR. Ethan > > Thanks for working on this! > Zach > _______________________________________________ Python-Buildbots mailing list -- python-buildbots@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-buildbots-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-buildbots.python.org/ Member address: arch...@mail-archive.com
