Re: Buildfarm support for older versions

On 12/16/2021 11:17 am, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 12/16/21 11:11, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> A new animal, because we're not supporting every build option. On the
>>> non-live branches you really only want:
>>>
>>>     --enable-debug --enable-cassert --enable-nls
>>>
>>>     --enable-tap-tests --with-perl
>>>
>>> You can make it share the same storage as your existing animal
>>> (godwit
>>> and crake do this). The client is smart enough to manage locks of
>>> several animals appropriately.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> So just create a new animal / config file, and set those options?
>> and FreeBSD head / main would be useful?
>> (Currently FreeBSD 14 and clang 13).
>>
>
> Sure. I think if we get coverage for modern Linux, FreeBSD and Windows
> we should be in good shape.
>
> I doubt we need a heck of a lot of animals - there's not going to be
> much going on here.
>
>
> cheers
>
>
> andrew
>

Would you mind terribly giving me the exact steps?
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