Make watchdog (Re: Build failure on Windows/MSVC because of embedserv)

[Lubos Lunak]

On Wednesday 21 of March 2012, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Monday 19 of March 2012, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 07:33 +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > >  Oh, I see. I've already noticed this myself, and that's a good
> > > explanation for Voreppe's (lack of) builds. That's a rather bad bug for
> > > tinderbox builds, and we really could use a tinderbox watching over our
> > > commits breaking the MSVC build (I think I fixed 5 MSVC regressions
> > > last week at the very least).
> >
> > 	Yep - perhaps a re-boot-box-and-restart-build-after-4-hours of no
> > watchdog ping or something ? :-)
>
>  Nah, so crude :). I've written a make watchdog, it's currently being
> tested on the Win-x86_6-fast tinderbox to see how it works in practice.

 Just for the record, this has now been committed to tinbuild, so whoever has 
a tinderbox suffering from this can update and add something like -d 600 to 
the arguments.

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 l.lunak at suse.cz