tinderbox information.

[Jim Gettys]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 14:56, Egbert Eich wrote:
> Jim Gettys writes:
>  > On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 13:06, Egbert Eich wrote:
>  > > 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.
>  > 
>  > I can make it do so; but then you only get the one problem when
>  > there may be others lurking, and it will take longer to detect them.
> 
> That's fine. Let's hope I only breake on thing at a time.
> 
>  > 
>  > You can check the raw log and search for ***.
> 
> That's what I did on several of the red-flagged logs. (It took ages to get
> them transferred). I did not find a single occurance of '***'.

Hmmm... my test for a failed build is buggy.  I'll go fix...

Sorry for having the tinderbox cry wolf.


> 
>  > 
>  > But if people think it is better not to do a make -k,
>  > I can go to a plain make, but I suspect that will slow things down.
>  > 
>  > > 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.
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > This seems like a mistake: the Makefiles should be depending
>  > on the Imakefiles, it would seem to me, and have them rebuild
>  > if they have changed.  But I don't know what the current system
>  > actually does in this area.
> 
> They should depend on the Imakefiles and all files in config/cf, 
> right. Since this is not feasable one needs to redo them by hand.
> 
>  > 
>  > The tinderbox admin can request a "clobber" build any time,
>  > which removes everything, does a full check out, and a "make World".
>  > If you want to be an admin, just let me know.
> 
> We may not need a full checkout, but we may need to do a 
> 'make World' (or at least a 'make Everything').

Which do you recommend?  World or Everything?
                       - Jim



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Jim Gettys <Jim.Gettys@hp.com>
HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory