On 02/10/2016 09:41 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > Hi > > Most of the common problems with the buildbots have been fixed: > * The Windows buildbots were failing to determine the SVN revision > being built, showing "UNKNOWN". This was fixed by running the "svn > info" command under Cygwin, as the Windows build bots do not have the > Windows version of SVN installed, only a Cygwin one. > * Many builds were failing because ./bootstrap couldn't download some > dependencies. Now we run it twice, and abort the build if both failed. > * SVN checkout was intermittently failing on many buildbots, because > buildbot uses hardcoded and too short 120 second timeouts when > deleting the massive previous build directory, and when copying the > checked out source to the new build directory. After much testing, I > changed all the *nix buildbots to a slower but extremely resilient > option, separately deleting the old SVN directory, doing a fresh SVN > checkout, deleting the old build directory, and copying the SVN > directory to make a new build directory, each with a very long > timeout.
Thanks again for your persistent work on the buildbots. I know learning about the quirks was time consuming and rather frustrating. > > All the *nix buildbots are now green and should be building 100% reliably. YAY! > > BTW after committing to our buildbot script at > https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/buildbot/aegis/buildmaster/master1/projects/openofficeorg.conf, > you'll know the buildbot is using your changes when all the IRC bots > (one of which is ooo-bot) in #asftest on Freenode disconnect and > reconnect, which happens about 5 minutes after you commit. OK, good to know. > > Sadly Windows is more broken than ever :-(. I've been told by infra > that the apr problem happens because build.pl keeps > ext_libraries/apr/wntmsci12.pro/misc/build/apr-1.4.5/Makefile.win open > after the build is over, breaking the next build. Having read build.pl > a bit, I suspect the give_second_chance function which tries to re-run > make if the build fails on Windows, may be involved. However we now > have a new problem, where aoo-win7 hangs during the build, seemingly > while delivering sc :-(. OK, thanks for the full story. > > Otherwise: > * Infra was doing some work on the > https://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/index.html website but it's > still not using our changes in SVN. > * The buildbots shouldn't just be building (which just proves the code > compiles on that platform and the unit tests all pass), but also > collecting results from qa tests. > > Damjan Again thank you for all your wonderful work. Maybe others can help with the Windows hanging problem. -- -------------------------------------------- MzK "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." -- Carl Bard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
