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

[Roman Bogorodskiy]

 Danny 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?

As for me, I don't know any solution of this problem. Anyway, usually
error logs give enough information to fix the problem. You can also ask
somebody of commiters to help you with testing. 

64 bit archs are still my headache though...

-Roman Bogorodskiy
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