Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Build server

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Alex Bligh wrote:
> The 00:00 build finished at 02:30 (approx). That's 2.5 hours.
> Luke started a build at 08:39 which finished at 13:05. That's 4.5 hours.
>
> I take it the difference is the older (and apparently less buggy) C
> compiler.
>
> But 4.5 hours is a daft amount of time to spend building something
> I can build here in 2.5 minutes, especially when we want to know
> whether or not a change has fixed something close to a release.
>
> I don't know whether the build server is still having memory shortage
> problems or whether this is still the "no pre-compiled headers"
> problems. Is there anything we can do about it? (post 0.7)
>
> Alternatively, are the build server scripts available? I'm thinking
> I may have a server in a data centre which could do a gcc 4.x
> compile.
>
> Alex
The problem is partly the fact that we need to use GCC-3.3.6 in order to 
get compatibility with most distributions possible (i.e. no pre-compiled 
headers). The build server itself is a reasonable machine now (2.5Ghz 
de-celeron with 512Mb memory).

The 4.5 build time includes copying executables to various external 
locations and we've be suffering a bandwidth drought whilst mail-shots 
are sent out.

   Luke