Collaboration on Testing GCC/LLVM Toolchains

Collaboration on Testing GCC/LLVM Toolchains

[Nicholas Krause]

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.


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

Nick

Re: Collaboration on Testing GCC/LLVM Toolchains

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 4:02 PM Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@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.

>
>
> Not sure if that's done already so sorry for the noise if it is,
>
> Nick
>
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Re: 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@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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>> yocto mailing list
>> yocto@yoctoproject.org
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Re: Collaboration on Testing GCC/LLVM Toolchains

[Ross Burton]

On 14/11/2019 18:05, Nicholas Krause wrote:
>> 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.
Fixing devupstream.bbclass (already integrated into oe-core) to also 
extend native recipes is a non-trivial engineering effort sadly.

Ross