On Mar 12, 2014, at 3:08 PM, Ralph Corderoy <ralph(_at_)inputplus(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
I'm surprised the build-bots aren't trying a few common combinations of configure options to show up changes that break outside the contributor's normal set.
It's actually not that hard. It's just tedious – very very tedious – to set up the buildmaster config to handle that. And there have been many other things that have captured my attention ahead of that task ;-) The original purpose of the buildbots was to shake out portability issues across different UNIX variants. For that it has been successful. But when you get into the n! permutations of build configs, scalability goes all to hell in a hurry. If we had more machines in the build cluster I wouldn't be so concerned. But right now all the build slaves are VMs running on my Mac Mini, and I do like to use it for other things, too :-) --lyndon
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