Trace Compass webinar will be held on Feb 22nd, 2017
Breakpoints improvements
Breakpoints are still quite limiting, especially for multi-core
When GDB fails to install a breakpoint during launch, the whole launch failed miserably. Mikhail has a patch that at least informs the user of the problem; however gdb 7.11 does not behave well in this case; 7.12 is better but the error message is not descriptive enough.
Mikhail to open GDB bugs about it
Let's move forward with Mikhail's patch to at least improve things. Mikhail to add Jonah as reviewer to get input.
Other improvements need to be expressed to know what work can be done.
"Show details" is something we could do if we reach a consensus.
We will keep track of the situation and progress in the monthly call
Eclipse 4.7 needs a more modern glibc than what RHEL 6 supports. Is this a problem to others? Is there a workaround?
There are plans to define a "software collection" for RHEL 6 to support Eclipse Oxygen
"Software collections" allow to install a group of packages that are needed to run specific newer tools in a contained environment
The "sofware collection" for Oxygen will only be done _after_ Oxygen is released, because it contains Eclipse Oxygen itself
Builds timing out
Timeout set to 2h30 but still too slow
It seems it is related to too many builds on the same HIPP
Some core tests hang forever. Apparently there is a deadlock in the indexer triggered by the tests.
First step would be to try to fix the deadlock
If we can't, we could attempt to timeout the tests and abort the build when we "detect" the deadlock.
We should also work with the web masters to improve the performance
New build, CMake, UI
Doug was ill and couldn't join. We'll keep this on the agenda for next month.
