[tlbuild] trial builds

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On 04/13/2012 02:24 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
> Dear TL builders,
>
> It's that time again.  I think the sources are stable enough now that
> it's worth doing some test builds.  So please give it a try and report
> success|failure.  (Dick and Norbert, consider yourselves reported.:)
>
> However, please ***DO NOT COMMIT*** anything.
> We don't want to do that until the tlnet freeze, and we want to minimize
> the time we spend frozen, so it's not yet.
>
> If you know you won't have time to build your platform this year,
> please let me know now so we can look for someone else.
>
> Thanks,
> Karl
>
> P.S. I know of one problem, which I think would only affect BigEndian
> machines.  I'll write separately about that.

Hi Karl and all,

looks surprisingly good on linux-ppc:

2741.62user 523.69system 55:59.54elapsed 97%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 
1624432maxresident)k
30016inputs+3269080outputs (56major+74402575minor)pagefaults 0swaps
+ echo 0

./Build: 350 executables in /mnt/shared/tlsources/inst/bin.
done (exit status 0) Fri Apr 13 13:31:53 CEST 2012

And this on Friday 13!

All best

Thomas