On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 5:33 PM Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: > > On 11/28/18 7:11 PM, enh wrote: > > yeah, bitrot is my big fear too. i really don't want to have to > > actually get a mac. (even if i'm not paying for it, this current > > macbook pro genuinely is the most awful laptop i've ever used.) > > > > but i suspect i could always just update the mac toybox prebuilt "on > > demand", which i assume would work out to "once every couple of years > > or so". obviously i'll admit that to the build folks up front though > > :-) > > Meanwhile I continue to ponder porting android to Hexagon and such, and would > want it to "just work" as much as possible. (Yeah bionic would need new stuff, > but llvm already has https://twitter.com/landley/status/1062570074752589824 ) > So > "build from source in a genericish way" is worth extra cycles from me when > it's > low hanging fruit... > > I'm told the mac mini is back. Alas their cheapest/crappiest one is $800 so > I'm > not likely to get it. But as an ssh-able test machine, there should be one in > a > lab somewhere? (How do you regression test the mac build now?)
we don't have automated testing for macOS. most engineers don't have a mac, and the continuous build infrastructure doesn't build for the mac. (the _NDK_ continuous build does. that actually matters --- most NDK users use Windows, but most of the rest use macOS rather than Linux.) basically we submit changes, and then the next day or so -- depending on how broken the mac build already is -- we might get a mail telling us we've broken the mac build. the mac build is usually broken. so, yeah, you'll get no good answer to this question from me :-) what i'm doing right now is hacking about on a loaner macbook that i'll have to give back soon. if maintaining toybox for mac becomes important enough, i can just give in and get a mac in addition to my big boy linux laptop. > Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net