Re: Buildfarm support for older versions

On 12/16/21 11:11, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
>>
>> A new animal, because we're not supporting every build option. On the
>> non-live branches you really only want:
>>
>>     --enable-debug --enable-cassert --enable-nls
>>
>>     --enable-tap-tests --with-perl
>>
>> You can make it share the same storage as your existing animal (godwit
>> and crake do this). The client is smart enough to manage locks of
>> several animals appropriately.
>>
>>
>
> So just create a new animal / config file, and set those options?
> and FreeBSD head / main would be useful?
> (Currently FreeBSD 14 and clang 13).
>

Sure. I think if we get coverage for modern Linux, FreeBSD and Windows
we should be in good shape.

I doubt we need a heck of a lot of animals - there's not going to be
much going on here.


cheers


andrew

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