buildbot for alternative architectures now online

[Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Monday, 4 April 2016 at 05:54:36 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> LDC is usable on other architectures than x86/x86_64, too. But 
> since we lacked a CI server we often created regressions 
> without noticing.
>
> To improve the situation I have created my own buildbot setup. 
> Currently there are the following slaves available: armv7 
> (IFC6410 board, Krait CPU, hardfloat), armv8 (Runabove cloud 
> image), POWER8 (PowerLinux provided by OSU Open Source Lab). I 
> hope to add a second POWER8 slave soon, too.
> The slaves start a build as soon as a change on the ltsmaster, 
> master or merge-2.071 branch is detected. The setup is still 
> not perfect but it is sufficient to see that the armv7 build 
> from ltsmaster is almost green. :-)
>
> The UI can be reached at http://buildbot.ldc-developers.org/. 
> (I still work on the configuration - expect still some 
> instability. Alternate address is currently 
> http://redstarbuildbot.mynetgear.com:12080/ in case the 
> official address wn't work.)
>
> Do you like to support LDC development on alternative targets? 
> If you have a box which has enough resources to build LDC and 
> you are willing to run your own build slave then I can add your 
> build slave to the setup. :-)
>
> Regards,
> Kai

I encountered some stability issues with my setup. I guess that 
this is a standard challenge with first setup of a CI server.

I moved the master to a Scaleway C1 cloud server. The setup is 
still not complete and not all buildslaves are currently 
connected. But I hope to have it ready soon.

Regards,
Kai