PPC/PPC64 disabled in Koji for dist-f13
Jeff Garzik
jgarzik at pobox.com
Thu Oct 1 03:51:36 UTC 2009
On 09/30/2009 11:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Again, would you rather debug glibc now, or later? "Not at all" is not
> an option.
[...]
> Well, I'm by no means wedded to ppc64; I just want *some* BE
> architecture in the primary set. Maybe a reasonable compromise would be
> to include ppc but not ppc64? That would cover basic BE portability
> issues, if not the occasional BE-and-64-bit bug. And it would halve the
> present workload of the PPC builders, which might help the build time
> issue.
Seconded on all points.
If sheer number of build machines is an issue, one could spin up a qemu
running ppc on a non-ppc box. One does reach a tipping point where a
modern machine + emulation winds up beating a native machine, as
progress marches on, too.
Jeff
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