r246916 probably broke amd64 build

Davide Italiano davide at freebsd.org
Wed Feb 20 15:32:35 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> Davide Italiano <davide at freebsd.org> writes:
>> Unfortunately tinderbox didn't catch this bug because it's triggered
>> only when gcc is used to build kernel.
>
> In this particular case, the broken code is only built on platforms
> which default to clang.  Otherwise, it would have been caught when
> building one of the platforms that default to gcc.
>

I see. In fact this was a very unlucky case (problem in MD code, for a
platform that default to clang).

> The tinderbox servers simply donn't have enough CPU power to build all
> possible combinations.  There isn't even enough for a standard build of
> all platforms at a reasonable frequency.  I have a stack of new servers,
> but nowhere to host them - see the donations wantlist for details.
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no

Sorry I can't help you with that.

Thanks,

Davide


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