Re: NetBSD/vax vm for github testing

On Mon, 2025-01-06 19:29:32 +0000, John Klos <[email protected]> wrote:
> > However it takes 24 minutes even to build ancient small emacs-18.59.
> > simh emulating microvax3900 on my i5-4570 NetBSD/amd64 took ~70 hours
> > to build perl 5.38.2 (from pkgsrc-2023Q4) so it won't finish in
> > 6 hour github CI limit.
> 
> I suppose because additional cores can't be thrown at simh, this
> is a difficult limit.
> 
> What do others do when something comes close to that limit? Do
> they just add cores and increase -j?

Just wait for it. I personally prefer to not do parallel builds as I
quite often compare build logs. That just won't fly...

  I haven't tried that, but maybe it would be worth to give it a shot:
Can we use the Tools cross-gcc as a backend to distcc on a fast amd64
host and use that either on a VAX to compile stuff, or even for
cross-building pkgsrc packages on an amd64 host? I've never been in
that route and don't know anything about whether that's already
working / supported.

MfG, JBG

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