On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:58:18AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 17:56 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:35:34PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > On 6/12/07, Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > >PPC is the fastest canary in the cage, if you will. :)
> >
> > no its not... the builders are sooooo damn slow. I hate it... ppc
> > builders are such a tease. You see your package burn through x86 and
> > x86_64 and then boom it falls over and dies on ppc after everything
> > else has gone swimmingly.
>
> Ahum, consider yourself lucky, as a reminder we used to also build
> Core on ia64 and s390(x) :-)
And that was good, IA64 caught some bugs for me as well that went
completely undetected for some mysterious reason on other architectures
but were fatal for them all. (Botched shared libraries)
yeah yeah, and s390x pointed out a bug in libxml2 about some obscure
aliasing problem. But in general going though that wasn't very fun.
Daniel
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