tinderbox information.

[Kendall Bennett]

Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith@Sun.COM> wrote:

> Jim Gettys wrote:
> > The cycle time will then be several hours, however, since
> > the monolithic stuff takes so long to build.
> 
> Are we changing fast enough that a several hour cycle is a problem?
> (And "make World" on the entire monolithic tree currently takes only
>   19 minutes on our shiny new dual 2Ghz Opteron system - a far sight
>   from the first time I built X on a Sparc 2 and it took over 24 hours.
>   Just need to get a few more of those boxes in here so we can stop
>   fighting over access to it.)

If you want to speed up builds, consider asking TrollTech to donate 
copies of their 'Team Builder' product to Freedesktop.org for use on the 
Tinderbox (at least for Linux builds). Then if you have multiple boxes 
you can run parallel builds across all the boxes, which drastically 
speeds things up (the other boxes have no source, they just compile code 
as in a compile farm).

We use this internally at SciTech and it made the Qt Embedded build we 
were working on go from around 2 hours per build to less than 10 minutes 
using 5 machines and a 10 way parallel build!

Regards,

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