Ongoing mass rebuild on s390x

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:07:48PM +0200, Karsten Hopp wrote:
> Am 19.05.2009 15:58, schrieb Jerry James:
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Karsten Hopp<karsten at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>    
>>> AFAIK there's a cron script which needs to run on the koji hub to run those
>>> builds on the
>>> secondary archs. This isn't enabled yet as there are still quite a few
>>> packages missing and
>>> we'd get too many failures caused by unresolved dependencies.
>>> But the plan is to enable this as soon as possible.
>>>      
>>
>> How about debugging facilities?  The C part of GCL is compiling
>> successfully, but then it crashes while trying to process the Lisp
>> part.  Is there a box I can log into remotely so I can use gdb on the
>> thing to see what's going on?
>>    
>
>
> Unfortunately not, but that's similar to the other archs.
> If you don' t have p.e. a ppc machine at home you'll have difficulties
> fixing a ppc related crash. Atm you'll have to do some nasty tricks

There are at least three of us that happily offer ssh access to ppc/ppc64
machines.  While that isn't the same as having one sitting in front of you,
it does work for a large number of problems.  So it's not exactly the same :).

josh