junit 4.11 is installed on the new buildbots we are prepping for use fwiw Gav...
On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Kay Schenk <ksch...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 08/26/2016 04:22 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Kay Schenk wrote: > >> Do you really mean 16.04 LTS? Is there a buildbot setup with this? I > >> am NOT > >> a Ubuntu person. > > > > Yes, I did mean 16.04 LTS. But I see that end of life for 14.04 > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases is April 2019, so 5 years and not 3 as > > it was for earlier Ubuntu LTS versions. This means 14.04 is OK. > > > > That said, if our focus is on making a release then we simply need > > working buildbots. The current setup (pending the dependency fixes) can > > be satisfactory too. As a rule of thumb, the newer a (Linux) buildbot > > is, the less compatible produced builds are - which means they can be > > tested by fewer people. > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > Just now I replaced configure.ac with and older version before the > specific junit and hamcrest version checking. Hopefully this will get > our current buildbots rolling again. > > The major problem with newer buildbots using Ubuntu is the glibc version > is newer compared to what is used in our "baseline" Linux, which is > CentOS5, or even, as I discovered CentOS7. SO, I can't test the builds > using my CentOS 6.8, for example. Newer end user Linux systems would > probably not have problems. > > The good thing about moving to the Ubuntu 14.04 buildbots was our > capability to install what we needed basically directly vs putting in > Jira tix to infra. > > I'm hoping the buildbots will run OK this evening. > > ps. I think Windows is building --without-junit, so we have an > inconsistency there. > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > Kay Schenk > Apache OpenOffice > > "Things work out best for those who make > the best of the way things work out." > -- John Wooden > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Gav...
