On 7/24/2010 4:07 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Chris Marshall<[email protected]> wrote: >> You've pretty much hit the high spots as far as >> I know. I had planned to set up some virtual box >> machines for such testing (and will eventually). >> >> I haven't done it myself but if you put the linux >> on a VM, you could snapshot the VM with different >> sets of dependencies installed (for example). >> Then just pick the appropriate VM to start for >> the level of testing you desire. > > How do you do that? What VM do you recommend? It sounds like you > planned to use http://www.virtualbox.org/
I had planned to use VMWare when I first thought about this but since then virtualbox seems to have grown in usability and support. The simplest might be to find an already built VM of the OS of interest and add the Perl and Devel stuff for PDL install and building. >> I suggest serial testing since after you work >> through the first flavor of OS and all the >> different PDL issues, the next will be *very* >> similar if not identical. > > What is serial testing? Serial as in one after another: (1) test with Ubuntu (2) test with CentOS (3) test with Solaris (4) test with FreeBSD ... > >> OpenSolaris would be great but I don't think >> we have any recent tests with PDL at the moment. > > Does that mean that PDL probably won't work on OpenSolaris? I'm pretty > new to this testing thing so I'll probably ask a few dumb questions > before I am useful. Core PDL (without any external dependencies) should build just fine. However, without IO, Graphics, etc it is not so interesting. I usually try with all WITH_XX options set to undef the first time. If that works, proceed from there. If nothing works, then set the WITH_XX to 0 and try a build. If that works, add WITH_XX one-by-one until failure. Debug and continue.... >> An issue there is the OpenGL + FreeGLUT >> dependencies since I don't think Solaris >> includes FreeGLUT by default. > > Ok. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
