Re: buildfarm issues

Andrew,

A couple of things,

1. we need to develop a matrix of systems/os/compiler to see what coverage we do have and compare it to the INSTALL
guide.
2. the run_build.pl should be changed to keep the information on the system to date (and have the matrix in 1 change)
3. have the run_build.pl script check the build farm CVS to see if there is a new version of the build farm code and
either download and/or alert the owner of the system

I am able and willing to help out in all of the above. I am also willing to help fill the gap in systems if needed. I
have been using perl for over 10 years now (since perl 4 days) and have been doing web/postgres coding for the last 6
years.

Let me know what I can do to help

Jim

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy(at)wavefire(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:28:09 -0500
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] buildfarm issues

> Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
>
> >On Friday 04 March 2005 10:11, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Now that we've been running for a while there are a few buildfarm issues
> >>that I need to address.
> >>
> >>First, do we keep the right data about the members? Essentially, we
> >>keep: <operating_system, os_version, compiler, compiler_version,
> >>architecture>. For Linux, we genarlly ask for the
> >>Distribution/distro-version instead of the OS/os-version. However, that
> >>lead to interesting situations - Gentoo for example is so "flexible"
> >>that in version 2004.03 you might easily be using kernel version 2.4.x
> >>or 2.6.x ... in fact it's almost impossible to tell what might be
> >>installed on a Gentoo system, or how it was compiled. So I'm really not
> >>sure how we should treat such systems.
> >>
> >>Second is the fact that systems change over time. People upgrade their
> >>machines. I'm considering a facility to allow people to change the
> >><os-version,compiler-version> aspects of their registered personality -
> >>these will become essentially timestamped pieces of information, so
> >>we'll still be able to tie a set of values to a history item.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >What about using uname(1), cc -v, etc to glean this information and post it
> >with each event logged? I belive you have all this stuff already in the
> >config.log that is used already ?
> >
> >
>
> See previous para - on Linux we want the distro name and version, not
> "Linux" plus kernel version. uname doesn't seem to help much there.
> Also, I have no idea how portable cc -v is. Can we guarantee to have the
> compiler version properly identified on every platform?
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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