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[Daniel Stone]

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On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:33:04AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:15:40AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> > 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.
> > >=20
> > > 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 hour=
s.
> > >   Just need to get a few more of those boxes in here so we can stop
> > >   fighting over access to it.)
> >=20
> > If you want to speed up builds, consider asking TrollTech to donate=20
> > copies of their 'Team Builder' product to Freedesktop.org for use on th=
e=20
> > Tinderbox (at least for Linux builds). Then if you have multiple boxes=
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> > you can run parallel builds across all the boxes, which drastically=20
> > speeds things up (the other boxes have no source, they just compile cod=
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> > as in a compile farm).
> >=20
> > We use this internally at SciTech and it made the Qt Embedded build we=
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> > were working on go from around 2 hours per build to less than 10 minute=
s=20
> > using 5 machines and a 10 way parallel build!
>=20
> I have good relations with the Trolls: I'll sound them out on it.

Got a response - 'I don't see why not', tho their director of product
relations is away until the 15th, so it may take that time to get a
final yea/nay, but the response was very positive.

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