How to deal with an arch you don't have access to (pointyhat)

[Kirill Ponomarew]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:51:12PM +0100, Danny Pansters wrote:
> A port I maintain doesn't build on alpha 4. I have a possible solution (might 
> need to repeat for other modules that may have the same problem), but since I 
> only have i386 myself I can't test it. I would think this is not an uncommon 
> situation and so I wanted to ask how do port maintainers deal with this?
> 
> Of course I can PR, then wait and see how pointyhat does, then perhaps PR  
> again, etc. Doable but not very efficient, and I'm uncomfortable submitting 
> stuff that isn't tested in any way. So, what do people normally do in such 
> cases, try and find a guinea pig?
> 
> Or is it possible to build a port for another arch (I think not unless you 
> also have/use a world built for that arch)?

It's better if you send a patch to appropriate committers, since
they're able to test your patches on another archs.

-Kirill