tinderbox information.

[Jim Gettys]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 13:17, Egbert Eich wrote:
> Also would it be possible to run the build in an lndir-ed tree
> to avoid cvs from complaining about files that it doesn't know
> about? It would keep the logs much shorter.
> 

Almost anything is possible; it is just a perl script (ugh).

This instant, getting Bonsai running would be more useful.
I did add it to the todo list in the wiki (though maybe I
should add the suggestion to the bugzilla instead: I created
bugzilla components yesterday for tinderbox).
                              - Jim


> Egbert.
> 
> 
> Egbert Eich writes:
>  > 
>  > I'm still trying to understand the build that takes place in
>  > tinderbox. It looks like it checks out pieces of the tree
>  > and does a 'make -k'. 
>  > This has two disadvantages:
>  > 1. It doesn't stop on the problem, therefore the area
>  >    where the problem happened is not easy to spot.
>  > 2. The Makefiles don't get rebuild. If something was
>  >    changed within an Imakefile or config file it will
>  >    not show up in the logs.
>  > 
> 
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Jim Gettys <Jim.Gettys@hp.com>
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