Hi Jeff,
> On 1/5/21 10:54 AM, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>
>> I fear I'm a bit lost here myself. I do have a little experience
>> running various builders:
>>
>> * I inherited a Golang one on Solaris/amd64 (based on their own builder
>> infrastructure).
>>
>> * I do run builders for GDB (mostly dormant since Sergio left RedHat)
>> and LLVM on Solaris/amd64 and sparcv9 (both using buildbot).
>>
>> In all three cases the projects provide documentation how to configure
>> your own builders and add them to the infrastructure. Is something like
>> this possible for the GCC Jenkins (say adding Solaris builders) and if
>> so how? Or would one need to setup one's own instance, in which case it
>> would be extremely helpful to learn the necessary config: doing
>> something like this from scratch is a major effort, as seen in Paul
>> Matos' effort (also buildbot-based) of a couple of years ago.
> We don't have any procedures in place for this (yet). I'd like to add
> them, but I'm swamped.
understood. Often it's easier for an outsider to document a procedure
since he's certain to stumble across every possible roadblock someone
familiar with the system has long forgotten about.
> I'm certainly open to having others contribute here. As a long standing
> member of the community I'd be happy to set up an account for you so you
> could wire in a sparc/solaris system executor and set up the build scripts.
That would be nice. Although my current manual daily regtests do help
and a considerable part of the work is investigating and reporting
failures found, any automatism takes part of the legwork.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
