[DOCS] Review requested: How to Setup an Arch Linux Buildbot

[Mikael Lyngvig]

No, never heard of Docker before.  But it sure sounds interesting.  I'll
look into it.  I have several times thought that I might as well make an
installation script, but Docker sounds much better than that.

-- Mikael


2013/11/19 Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu>

> Have you considered creating a docker <http://www.docker.io/> container
> for this? Then anyone (with the hardware) can easily replicate this on
> their machine. The Dockerfile (and any associated scripts) would also then
> also serve as a precise specification of the steps.
>
> I unfortunately don't have the hardware to test this out and haven't done
> any building on ARM. Renato, could you check this out?
>
> -- Sean Silva
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Mikael Lyngvig <mikael at lyngvig.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> This document is one of my usual hyper-detailed documents.  I believe
>> that newcomers benefit a lot from being shown every single step of the way.
>>  The next time they walk it, they can themselves chose another way or even
>> optimize it as they see fit.  But my experience is that it takes "forever"
>> (10+ hours) to set up a builder on a new OS, if you're not accustomed to
>> doing so.  I hope that my guide will reduce the amount of time needed and
>> make the procedure so clear that many more opt to provide builders for the
>> LLVM project.
>>
>> I hope that you'll find errors and come up with some great suggestions,
>> but I'd like to draw attention to the fact that creating a document like
>> this takes 25-50 hours.  The procedure must be researched, tried out,
>> written down, formatted, tested, and then reviewed.  Please keep that in
>> mind when you comment :-)  In fact, I still need the last, ultimate test
>> (to reformat my system and go through it all one more time), but I simply
>> haven't had the time to do so yet.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mikael
>>
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