> Hi, > > Thanks to many donors of both hosting and machines the architecture > coverage of the GCC Compile Farm has been greatly expanded > in the recent monthes: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm
I think this is excellent. Will you be installing baseline Solaris machines that ensure testing is done for the vast number of Solaris comercial users out there? When I say "commercial" I mean the older legacy Solaris 8 releases. We currently cover this at Blastwave.org all the way back to the very old Sun Sparc sun4m architecture and in this way we know that anything we compile will run across the whole Solaris suite from Solaris 8 upwards on anything with a Sparc chip. The x86 world is somewhat more messy and in this regard we use a Pentium III based machine with Solaris 8. I note that you have Solaris 10 there in your farm but only for Sparc and no representation for Solaris on x86 or OpenSolaris for that matter. Therefore your test farm will not verify functionality on anything older than Solaris 10 and only on Sparc. That should be "good enough" but not exactly what I would call commercial grade testing. Is this because only Sparc Solaris is on your Primary Platform List? Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org Director Blastwave.org 905 - 373 - 9441 Open Source Services for Solaris http://www.blastwave.org --------------------------------------------------------- Further Info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastwave
