[ITK Community] Debian builds of ITK for non-x84/amd64 architectures

[Matt McCormick]

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Hi Dominique and Steve,


> As Dominique mentioned, policy for the official build daemon machines forbids
> network access from the build.  So, a while back, I asked around for some
> other machines to use for nightly builds.  I got a couple of offers of a login,
> but I lacked the time to set up and maintain the nightly.


Thanks for the information here.  It is good to have both an
understanding of Debian's build machine policies, and a link to the
current builds.

A lack of fast enough hardware for these architectures is a challenge.
 The cross architecture build system that Debian has set up is
impressive. For some of these architectures, cross-compiling with
limited testing on the native architecture may be the only feasible
option, but that requires extra build configuration.

>
> The other hard truth is that having a nightly build is not enough.  Each
> architecture needs a champion who will investigate the failures, do extra
> testing or develop patches.  The ITK community won't do it on their own.  Even
> with a nightly build submitted to cdash.
>
> I'm willing to help out with advice but I simply lack the time to do very much
> follow-up for non-mainstream architectures.  Truthfully, I don't have much
> time even for amd64 so more blood for Debian packaging would be welcome!


Yes!

Thanks for your much appreciated work.

Matt

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> wrote:
> Hello Matt,
>
> On November 6, 2013 05:43:37 PM Matt McCormick wrote:
>
>> Jean-Christophe noted this bug [1] at the CTK hackfest, which is
>> blocking CTK for other architectures.  Is it possible to get some of
>> these architectures reporting nightly builds [2] to the ITK software
>> quality dashboard [3], so they can be cleaned up?
>
> It's a great idea in principle for all the debian architectures to submit to
> the ITK dashboard -- and now that we're down to just two, we do have full
> coverage!  :-)
>
> If we want better coverage, the hard truth is that we need more volunteers and
> on a sustained basis.
>
> As Dominique mentioned, policy for the official build daemon machines forbids
> network access from the build.  So, a while back, I asked around for some
> other machines to use for nightly builds.  I got a couple of offers of a login,
> but I lacked the time to set up and maintain the nightly.
>
> The other hard truth is that having a nightly build is not enough.  Each
> architecture needs a champion who will investigate the failures, do extra
> testing or develop patches.  The ITK community won't do it on their own.  Even
> with a nightly build submitted to cdash.
>
> I'm willing to help out with advice but I simply lack the time to do very much
> follow-up for non-mainstream architectures.  Truthfully, I don't have much
> time even for amd64 so more blood for Debian packaging would be welcome!
>
> Cheers,
> -Steve