[LLVMdev] Validation Buildbot is Up!

[Daniel Berlin]

Also, if you want to put the buildbot status with the other buildbots
we have on google1.osuosl.org, i'm happy to add your config to the
master

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin.org> wrote:
> If you create a slave name and password for me, i'm happy to put one
> of the ubuntu 8.04 8 core machines i have running it. They are
> x86_64-linux
> (you would need to add -j8, which can be done through properties easily)
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:46 AM, David Greene <dag at cray.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 28 January 2009 15:59, Tanya Lattner wrote:
>>> On Jan 28, 2009, at 12:18 PM, David Greene wrote:
>>> > I have a buildbot operating to do validating builds of llvm up at
>>> >
>>> > http://obbligato.org:8080
>>> >
>>> > My DSL has been stable enough for the past few months for me to
>>> > feel comfortable hosting the buildbot there.
>>>
>>> We had a discussion in the past on what validate means. Did you ever
>>> formalize that? It might be good if you posted (on your website?) what
>>> specific criteria you are using to declare a build validated. Or is
>>> this just a normal build bot?
>>
>> We had a long discussion about this.  I'll post some information but
>> the buildbot essentially does this:
>>
>> - Build an LLVM without llvm-gcc
>> - Run LLVM tests
>> - Build llvm-gcc pointing to the newly-build LLVM
>> - Rebuild LLVM pointing to the newly-build llvm-gcc
>> - Run LLVM tests
>> - Run llvm-test
>>
>> If everything passes for debug, release and paranoid
>> (--enable-expensive-checks) we'll consider LLVM validated
>> for that target.
>>
>>> > It's not yet sending messages to llvmdev.  I want to do some more
>>> > testing of the setup before I turn it loose on everyone.  But you can
>>> > go take a look to see how it operates.
>>>
>>> I don't think llvm-dev is the right place to be sending mail to. Maybe
>>> the testresults list? What mails do you plan to send and how frequent?
>>
>> The buildbot kicks off every 100 commits or so.  There are three builds for
>> each target (the only buildslaves we have right now are for x86_64-linux and
>> i686-linux).  Each one of those will send an e-mail.
>>
>> I'm fine sending it to testresults if people pay attention.  I know that I
>> don't read testresults regularly because there are a lot of test runs I
>> don't care about.
>>
>> The whole point of the validation process is to identify bugs quickly so
>> they get fixed quickly and we keep llvm stable.  It means people will
>> have to monitor it and react when stuff doesn't work.
>>
>>                                           -Dave
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