Re: Test suite failure notes on the Wiki

2005-06-17 Thread Shane Shields
Shane Shields wrote: Archaic wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:13:19PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: The bottom paragraph of section 4.6 in LFS-Testing points to the LFS Wiki for information about failed tests. Is there perhaps an updated URL that could more directly point to this informati

Interesting Website about Cross-Compling

2005-06-17 Thread Jim Gifford
I found this website when talking to roel last night on IRC. One thing that surprised me was the LFS was actually mentioned in this document along with cross-compiling. http://www.scratchbox.org/documentation/general/tutorials/explained.html For all the documents which have really good informa

Re: Interesting Website about Cross-Compling

2005-06-17 Thread Shane Shields
Jim Gifford wrote: I found this website when talking to roel last night on IRC. One thing that surprised me was the LFS was actually mentioned in this document along with cross-compiling. http://www.scratchbox.org/documentation/general/tutorials/explained.html What gets my goat is that it i

Re: Cross-LFS build method

2005-06-17 Thread TheOldFellow
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: > >> compiler in temp-tools using your AMD64, it'll have compiled binaries >> targeted for the Sparc processor. Now, how is your AMD64 going to >> execute those Sparc instructions? > > > Would be using a different sort of compiler here - you'd be

Re: SBU calculations

2005-06-17 Thread Steve Crosby
On 17 Jun 2005, you wrote in lfs.dev: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:32:56PM +0100, Matthew Burgess wrote: >> >> Well, personally I measure them using the following simple rule: >> >> 1. Start timing immediately after the tarball has been unpacked. >> 2. Don't time the running of any testsuite com

Re: Cross-LFS build method

2005-06-17 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Is there something major that's wrong with this suggestion that I'm not seeing at the moment? Anyone else think of advantages or disadvantages? Opinions? Thanks for all the comments on this. They were actually very helpful. They clarified a few things for me and hop

Re: SBU calculations

2005-06-17 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 6/17/05, Steve Crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SBU's are a wild-ass guess. The methodology of calculating SBU's is fine, > but the application of someone else's build time measurements bear only > rough resemblance to my system - specifically because of architecture, > disk, memory, CPU

Re: SBU calculations

2005-06-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tushar Teredesai wrote: > On 6/17/05, Steve Crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> SBU's are a wild-ass guess. The methodology of calculating SBU's is fine, >>but the application of someone else's build time measurements bear only >>rough resemblance to my system - specifically because of archite

Re: SBU calculations

2005-06-17 Thread DJ Lucas
Steve Crosby wrote: > > SBU's are a wild-ass guess. The methodology of calculating SBU's is fine, > but the application of someone else's build time measurements bear only > rough resemblance to my system - specifically because of architecture, > disk, memory, CPU cache differences etc. Do w

Re: SBU calculations

2005-06-17 Thread DJ Lucas
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > I recommend just establishing a policy and using it as specified. The > details of the policy are not that important. Documenting and following > the policy is important. > > -- Bruce I'd guestimate that approx 90% or more of users (probably all developers) use the th

Re: SBU calculations

2005-06-17 Thread DJ Lucas
DJ Lucas wrote: > > I'd guestimate that approx 90% or more of users (probably all > developers) use the the first cmmi for binutils as the baseline SBU just > Change it or don't, but justify > the change. On second thought, don't. The extra commands are to be installed later and seem to me to b