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Re: Automated Toolchain Building and Testing
- From: Rainer Orth <ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>
- To: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl dot de>
- Cc: Samuel Mi <samuel dot miing at gmail dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:34:40 +0200
- Subject: Re: Automated Toolchain Building and Testing
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Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> writes:
> On Wed, 2013-08-28 23:26:29 +0800, Samuel Mi <samuel.miing@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Looks like you for now have been trying to find out a solution
>> suitable for you to automatically build GCC from source combined with
>> certain continuous systems like Jenkins. As a matter of fact, Jenkins
>> is exactly a good choice to do such thing just mentioned, due to
>> itself with so many plugins[1] you can pick up to fit your needs.
>
> I'm not too sure if Jenkins is actually a good choice, just because I
> question that there's a working Java especially for old Unix-alike
> systems that GCC still (in theory) supports. What about eg. older IRIX
> or Ultrix systems? ...or can you, instead of using the Java-based
I honestly wouldn't worry about such legacy systems: their respective
maintainers take care of testing them, and it would be hard nowadays to
even find both hardware and OS media to set up a new system.
FWIW, IRIX 6.5 was last supported in gcc 4.7, and that's the only IRIX
release I'm still testing. IRIX 5.3/6.x was deprecated in gcc 4.5
already, a release no longer supported and thus irrelevant. Same for
Tru64 UNIX: V5.1 support was deprecated in 4.7; still testing that
either.
Hope this helps.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University