Paul, is your build machine still running?

[Anton Vodonosov]

Hello Paul,

Some time ago your build server stopped to invoke test-grid-agent.
The last time the agent sent notification was 2013-03-02.

Have you turned it off on purpose or it is some breakage?

Best regards,
- Anton

[Anton Vodonosov]

23.03.2013, 02:11, "Paul Nathan" <pna...@vandals.uidaho.edu>:
> It appears it is hanging on the runs. Quite a few days have elapsed. Its a slow machine, so I couldn't be sure.
>
> Regards,
> Paul Nathan

Commit notifications go all the time, including several today.

I mean that your machine stopped to respond at 2013-03-02,
but this is actually minor detail.

Can you check what's going on? Run cl-test-grid/run-agent.sh manually,
or check your Jenkins setup?

If you can provide me access to the machine, I can study
cl-test-grid part myself.

Your machine is a valuable source of test results so far,
so restoring it back would be much appreciated.

Best regards,
- Anton

[Anton Vodonosov]

25.03.2013, 17:40, "Paul Nathan" <pna...@vandals.uidaho.edu>:
> Hi,
>
> I've submitted some results; I noticed my ccl and abcl were out of date after the run, so I upgraded and am rerunning to get the latest results out to you.
>
> My apologies about the delay.
>
> Also. I have a somewhat rickety osx ppc 10.4 box now. Is that a platform people are about still? If so, I can probably run one lisp on it. I don't want to stress it, it's an elderly machine.
>
> Regards,
> Paul Nathan

Hi Paul.

Thank you very much, your test results stream is restored now
(btw, you can control how your result are delivered by checking
http://groups.google.com/group/cl-test-grid-notifications
google group).

OSX PPC is not covered by test results yet. It is not so critical as we have OSX x86 results,
but if your time / interest permits, test results from osx ppc are welcome.

Best regards,
- Anton

[Anton Vodonosov]

25.03.2013, 23:19, "Paul Nathan" <pna...@vandals.uidaho.edu>:
> What lisp system should I try for osx ppc, do you think?
>
> Regards,
> Paul Nathan

Hello Paul.

Sorry for the long reply. It was necessary to review the lisp implementations
to found what do work on OS X PPC.

CCL - no support for PPC on OS X and the minimal OS X version is 10.5
ABCL - no need to test it (java is java everywhere)
SBCL - supports, a binary is provided on the http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html,
rebuild of more recent version should also be possible
ECL - seems supporting OS X on PPC (despite OS X is not listed on the project
page, in the mailing list there were example applications for it; PPC is listed
on the project page as a supported architecture)
CLISP - seems supporting, there is a MacPort which lists ppc in the supporte_archs
(http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/lang/clisp/Portfile)
ACL - requires OS X 10.6, you have 10.4
LispWorks - free Personal Editions doesn't support command line invocations - can't be tested with cl-test-grid at all
CMUCL - according to thes page - http://www.cons.org/cmucl/platforms.html -
only very old release 19f had been confirmed to work with MacOS X (10.4).

As you see, CCL is not supported. CCL is the most tested and recommented lisp to
run test-grid-agent. SBCL might also work, but I remember it had problems killing
child lisp processes when they hang.

I think if your time/interest permits, you may try SBCL both as test-grid-agent
and as a child lisp to be tested by agent.

If SBCL works, then you can try also CLISP, probably it is easy to install
via MacPorts or somehow else.

Also you can try ECL. It doesn't provide binaries, but building ECL is easy:
configure && make && make install.

Best regards,
- Anton

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Anton Vodonosov <avodo...@yandex.ru> wrote:

ECL - seems supporting OS X on PPC (despite OS X is not listed on the project
         page, in the mailing list there were example applications for it; PPC is listed
         on the project page as a supported architecture)

OS X is not listed because it is regarded as Unix-compatible and thus ECL builds on it. OS X PPC might have its own glitches, though, as I remember earlier versions of OS X had their own problems and I no longer have an OS X PPC machine to test it in -- PPC Linux works, though.

Juanjo

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