Erik de Castro Lopo <mle...@mega-nerd.com> writes: > Ben Gamari wrote: > >> It's a bit unclear how far we should extend test coverage. In the future >> I think I will at very least add an i386 Ubuntu environment, but we >> could go farther still. For instance these platforms immediately come to >> mind, >> >> * x86_64 FreeBSD >> * x86_64 Solaris >> * ARM Linux (although this could be quite tricky given the speed of >> these machines) >> * AArch64 Linux > > That would be awesome if we could get access to a decent (by which I mean > server grade, with at least 4 cores and 8 Gig of RAM). > I've wondered how one of the Scaleway ARMs would fare. Their specs are seem to be comparable to the Odroid XU4 which I use for my own builds, which barely passes. Perhaps dedicating some of the 50GB SSD to swap would help.
> The other option for ARM/Linux and AArch64/Linux is cross-compile builds. > Just building GHC as a cross-compiler for these targets would shave out > a lot of bugs. Let me know if you're interested. Its really pretty easy > to set up on a Debian or Ubuntu system. > I am absolutely interested but I'd first like to stabilize what we have. Let's chat about cross-compilation once that happens. Don't hesitate to remind me in a few weeks. Cheers, - Ben
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