Re: NetBSD/vax vm for github testing

jklos@ 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.
> 
> My fastest machine, a Ryzen 7900, takes just about 7.5 hours to compile 
> perl-5.40.0nb1 (open-simh 4.1.0, NetBSD 10/amd64, NetBSD 10.1/vax, latest 
> pkgsrc).

I've tried to setup GitHub action CI using NetBSD/vax 10.1 on simh
(and NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/alpha on qemu):
 https://github.com/tsutsui/netbsd-cross-live-ci

and then tried tests to build perl5 (revision around 5.40.0 with
your 'build-workaround' pkgsrc patch) on GitHub:
 https://github.com/tsutsui/perl5/actions/runs/12731292467

Summary (by ChatGPT):

** (1) NetBSD/vax on simh **  
  - 06:47:55 [00:00:00] Start  
  - 06:53:38 [00:05:43] NetBSD/vax multi-user boot  
  - 06:53:47 [00:05:52] Start Configure  
  - 08:22:57 [01:35:02] Start make  
  - 09:52:30 [03:04:35]  Link miniperl  
  - 11:39:03 [04:51:08]  Compiling Perl properties  
  - 12:47:29 [05:59:34]  Running Mkbootstrap for PPPort()  
  - 12:48:07 [06:00:12] Interrupted by timeout

** (2) NetBSD/i386 on qemu **
  - 06:47:55 [00:00:00] Start  
  - 06:52:44 [00:04:49] NetBSD/i386 multi-user boot  
  - 06:52:45 [00:04:50] Start Configure  
  - 07:04:03 [00:16:08] Start make  
  - 07:14:04 [00:26:09]  Link miniperl  
  - 07:21:40 [00:33:45]  Compiling Perl properties  
  - 07:27:12 [00:39:17]  Running Mkbootstrap for PPPort()  
  - 07:45:01 [00:57:06] make install  
  - 07:51:52 [01:03:57] Completed

So maybe it will take ~9 hours to perform CI for NetBSD/vax on simh
on current GitHub Actions.

(Note something seems broken on qemu-system-alpha emulation)
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Izumi Tsutsui