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Mike81
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 3:02 pm    Post subject: CFlags and Binhost Reply with quote

Hi,

I have 10 systems with Intel Xeon E5405 CPUs and 6 systems with Intel Xeon E3-1270 CPUs.

One E5405 box should be the binhost for all the other boxes.

I am not sure if I understand CFlags right:

The E5405 doesn't support SSE4.x, AVX and AES which the E3-1270 does.


  • What will now happen, when I build OpenSSL or the kernel on the binhost which doesn't support AES (gcc will set the "-noaes" flag)?
    When I install the created binpackages on a AES-capable box, will these box use AES or will I be unable to use AES-NI on any box, because while compiling, AES wasn't available and therefore it wasn't activated?

  • Some people recommend to run the binhost for multiple configurations in chroot. Can I create a binpackage with "-avx -aes" CFlags (=march=corei7-avx) on a box, which is actual a nocona/core2 box?


Thanks.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike81,

Run one binhost with two optimised sets of code and have all 16 systems contribute to the builds.
distcc is a wonderful tool.

The binhost box need not do all the building.

In your case, a chroot won't help as you need to be able to execute the code in the chroot ... or at least the toolchain.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How would I run one binhost with multiple sets without chroots? Do you have a link where I can read more about that?
Next week I'll also add some AMD opterons to the lab, would be nice to support this architecture, too (then it should be 3 sets, 2 intel + 1 amd?).
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike81,

A BINHOST is just a directory on a server you point your clients to.

To keep the explaination simple, lets say ome machine of each type serves as a BINHOST for its type, now you have the same directory structure on both machines.
By default, your packages would be in /usr/portage/packages on each BINHOST.

However, you can put your packages anywhere, so on one arch they could be in /usr/portage/packages/E5405 and on the other /usr/portage/packages/E3-1270
Having fixed the namespace collision for the packages, there is no reason why they cannot all be hosted on the same machine if you wish.
You can even add /usr/portage/packages/opteron to the mix.

Again they can all build for each other, with distcc you have a single compile farm, with one system from each arch leading the build for that arch.

For a working example, look at tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org
Hmm ... maybe thats not a good example as its almost empty but the directory structure is there.
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