Re: [Axiom-developer] new release and SuSE Linux

[Tim Daly]

I looked at the build farm wiki but it is confusing.
I don't have the "skills and knowledge" to do this either :-)

I'll look into this server farm. At the moment I have a local
machine that does a SUSE build. What is the problem you are
seeing that needs to be solved?

I used to build Axiom on an HP server farm but that died.
I used to build Axiom on a slashdot server farm but that died.
Eventually I gave up and created my own server farm.
Currently I have 9 machines in my home office.
I need some other machines but cost is an issue (who said free
software is free? :-) )


Camm Maquire is currently updating the Debian version of
Axiom to a recent release. He is also working to fix the
issues with Mac OS X so stay tuned.

I tried to create a "cloud server farm". At the May release
I built a cloud machine on Amazon's cloud and successfully
compiled Axiom there. However this was only for one system.
I ran out of time to really study the problem. I would like to
have a large set of cloud machines set up and ready to go at
release time since it takes a few days to do a release, mostly
in doing hand-build/hand-checking of binaries.

Axiom is in "continuous build" locally. Every update of Axiom's
silver version is built and tested before the sources are pushed to
the silver hosts, currently about 3-4 times a day. The limiting
factor is the number of stupid mistakes I make which, fortunately,
rarely get passed the local build server checks.

Silver sources live on:

sourceforge.net/projects/axiom
savannah.nongnu.org/projects/axiom
axiom-developer.org
axiom-developer.com
axiom-developer.net

Axiom Gold version is at github. Gold is updated every 2 months.

Tim


Martin Baker wrote:
> Tim,
>
> Would it be possible to check the planned new release under SuSE Linux 
> (because on  SuSE the virtual memory limit is set low by default).
>
> All that is necessary to check the problem is to run something that uses a bit 
> of memory like draw and also to try to compile something from the command 
> line. That is )co somefile.
>
> and if required put:
>
> ulimit -v unlimited
>
> in the startup script. Or at lest put a warning about this on the release 
> notes.
>
> Even better would be to put into the SuSE build service like OpenAxiom have 
> done.  As you can see here:
>
> http://software.opensuse.org/search?p=1&baseproject=ALL&q=open-axiom
>
> this automatically generates rpms not only for SuSE but also for Fedora, 
> Mandriva, etc.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have any skills or knowledge in doing this otherwise I 
> would offer to help.
>
> Martin Baker 
>
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