Our nightly builds run a 3-stage bootstrap and then the whole test suite, so you usually have a pretty good idea by the end whether the compiler is a good 'un or not.
You can checkout the scripts we use for the nightly builds from CVS: just 'cvs co nightly'. Setting up your own build using these scripts is fairly painless; Malcolm Wallace did it recently for Sparc to bolster our Sparc support a bit. [snip] I don't think I really have the CPU time available to run this sort of thing; I am already using most of the night recompiling UniForM (and having the nightly backups coming in and stamping on everything with hobnailed boots doesn't help either). Could someone set such a nightly build up on a free Sparc or Linux machine, and make
Simon Marlow wrote: [snip] the built binaries available to everyone when they succeed?