[tahoe-dev] update on the buildbots

[Benjamin Jansen]

On Mar 21, 2009, at 7:09 PM, zooko wrote:

> Ben Jansen's OpenBSD/Sparc64 buildbot doesn't have darcs.  It turns  
> out that there isn't a Glasgow Haskell Compiler which produces  
> Sparc64 binaries.  There are at least three ways to move forward: 1.  
> See if you can use Sparc32 binaries on OpenBSD/Sparc64 -- there is a  
> GHC for Sparc32: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_10_1.html#sparcsolaris 
>  , 2. Port GHC to Sparc64: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting 
>  , 3. Use some mechanism other than darcs to get the source code  
> onto Ben's buildbot, such as wget or some sort of gateway from darcs  
> into a revision control tool that does come with OpenBSD-Sparc64.

FYI, I tried (1) and unfortunately it doesn't work -- it can't run  
sparc32 binaries. Incidentally, I haven't found sparc64 binaries for  
*any* Solaris package, so I couldn't test whether Solaris/sparc64  
binary emulation works.

I'm currently going through (2). It's been slow going since I've had  
very little free time the past couple weeks, but I'm making some  
progress today.

(3) would probably be the quickest route to successful tahoe builds,  
but it would probably eliminate my interest in getting a working ghc  
for OpenBSD/sparc64. ;)

- Ben