Erik de Castro Lopo
Ben Gamari wrote:
It's a bit unclear how far we should extend test coverage. In the future I think I will at very least add an i386 Ubuntu environment, but we could go farther still. For instance these platforms immediately come to mind,
* x86_64 FreeBSD * x86_64 Solaris * ARM Linux (although this could be quite tricky given the speed of these machines) * AArch64 Linux
That would be awesome if we could get access to a decent (by which I mean server grade, with at least 4 cores and 8 Gig of RAM).
I've wondered how one of the Scaleway ARMs would fare. Their specs are seem to be comparable to the Odroid XU4 which I use for my own builds, which barely passes. Perhaps dedicating some of the 50GB SSD to swap would help.
The other option for ARM/Linux and AArch64/Linux is cross-compile builds. Just building GHC as a cross-compiler for these targets would shave out a lot of bugs. Let me know if you're interested. Its really pretty easy to set up on a Debian or Ubuntu system.
I am absolutely interested but I'd first like to stabilize what we have. Let's chat about cross-compilation once that happens. Don't hesitate to remind me in a few weeks. Cheers, - Ben