Hi Beman, Beman Dawes wrote:
Please volunteer to help make regression reporting more timely and reliable!
For a while I have been wondering about volunteering an ARM Linux machine to run tests; please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the current testing is done on x86 and one POWER system. I have a box with a dual-core Cortex-A15 (Samsung Exynos 5) and 2GB of RAM running Debian that is mostly idle. It currently has g++ 4.6 installed. But could it successfully run the tests in a sane period of time without choking? Has anyone observed what the peak RAM requirement is? What is the typical run time on an x86 system? I do have longer term plans for this hardware so it might not be available permanently - or it might melt - but I would be willing to give it a try. Are there more up-to-date instructions than those at http://beta.boost.org/development/running_regression_tests.html ? I have very limited experience with Boost.Build, Boost.Test, git or Python so I anticipate needing some hand-holding! Regards, Phil.