[yocto] Collaboration on Testing GCC/LLVM Toolchains

[Nicholas Krause]

On 11/13/19 9:59 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 4:02 PM Nicholas Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Greetings All,
>>
>> I'm a student working on multi-threading GCC and researching it. Seems
>> that it my
>>
>> time doing it and other things with the project it would be great to
>> start collaborating
>>
>> on testing gcc/llvm upstream with Yocto. Granted there is a testsuite
>> for both but it
>>
>> would be great to also test it against a build system that builds real
>> world software.
>>
>> Furthermore I'm aware that this is done for Yocto toolchain selection
>> internally but it
>>
>> would be great if we can start collaborating on testing upstream
>> toolchains if
>>
>> possible.
> I think its a good idea. Currently, we test released versions mostly,
> however, there is
> a class to switch to git versions and primarily be able to use tip of
> master for a given
> recipe, this would be something I wish we had but so far we have not
> fully completed it
> I know Ross had started this work and created initial skeleton, So
> step one would be to
> complete that class so we can easily switch recipes to use dev
> versions of packages
> this will go beyond GCC but certainly will be a tremendous achievement.

Does Ross have a copy of the skeleton or someone else as I would

like to take a look at it. Don't think I will be much help writing it as

I'm not too familiar with bitbake recipes or classes themselves.


Cheers,

Nick

>>
>> Not sure if that's done already so sorry for the noise if it is,
>>
>> Nick
>>
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