Unfortunately that's not our only problem.
Even before the MozillaBuild update, every "build --all" got "cancelled"
after about 37 minutes. For example see
https://ci2.apache.org/#/builders/67/builds/628
Regards
Damjan
On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 10:16 PM Matthias Seidel
wrote:
> Hi Damjan,
>
> Thank you for all the work on the buildbots!
>
> Looking at the Windows bot now:
>
> checking whether to build LDAP configuration backend... checking whether to
> build the internal NSS module... yes
> configure: error: Mozilla build tooling incomplete!
>
> It seems like MozillaBuild was updated to 4.x, which we do not support yet.
>
> Regards,
>
>Matthias
>
> Am 02.03.23 um 05:46 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic:
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 1:33 PM Matthias Seidel
>
> wrote:
>
>
> Now regarding Awk, instead of doing:
> rm /bin/awk
> mv /bin/gawk.exe /bin/awk.exe
> can't we prepend PATH with a directory containing an "awk" script that
>
> just
>
> calls gawk.exe?
>
> It would be great if there is a better way to do it. I just followed our
> Windows building guide all these years.
>
> But this is beyond my capabilities and one of the reasons why I cannot
> maintain our buildbots anymore.
>
>
> This approach did eventually work. I eventually succeeded in creating an
> "awk" script that calls "gawk" and setting PATH to its directory within
> Cygwin, and ./configure now gets further.
>
> Now the next problem is that Cygwin doesn't have gcc and g++
> (https://ci2.apache.org/#/builders/67/builds/516/steps/9/logs/stdio):
>
> which: no gcc in
>
>
> (/cygdrive/e/buildbot/openoffice-win10/utils:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/e/Python39/Scripts:/cygdrive/e/Python39:/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/OpenSSH:/cygdrive/c/Program
>
> Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files
> (x86)/Subversion/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/Git/cmd:/cygdrive/e/buildbot/tools/Windows Kits/10/Windows
> Performance
> Toolkit:/cygdrive/c/Users/buildbot/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps)
> configure: error: cygwin gcc and g++ are needed, please install them.
>
> How can we install them?
>
> That's an Infra job. ;-)
>
>
>
> Weeks ago, on the openoffice-win10 buildbot, many Cygwin dependencies
> somehow got deleted, and days of battling Buildbot and working with Infra
> on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-24114 were needed to install
> them again.
>
> The git crlf problem on Cygwin was another major issue that needed fixing.
>
> Awk was another, my idea for an "awk" script that calls gawk didn't work, I
> ended up copying /usr/bin/gawk.exe to awk.exe in a directory that is then
> prepended to the PATH environment variable passed to "configure" and
> "build", which worked in my own build and should work on the buildbot too.
> Since this copies gawk on every build, this approach won't be broken by
> future Cygwin upgrades like our previous renaming of gawk to awk by Infra
> was.
>
> I also changed haltOnFailure to False for the "build" step, so that the
> logs are uploaded even when the build fails, like the Linux buildbots do.
> Haven't checked whether that works yet.
>
> It eventually got through configure and started building, but every time
> that happened, the build was cancelled somehow.
>
> Then Java 8 changed somehow (upgrade or whatever), and Java detection
> broke. That has taken several more weeks to fix, and a command I was trying
> to run to log Java's files wasn't working due to a missing bracket which I
> eventually found and fixed.
>
> A further Java problem is that oowintool fails to detect Java, as it's
> looking for the 32 bit Java registry key, while we only have a 64 bit Java
> installed. I had to dig through the buildbot script's history to find a
> working 32 bit Java directory to specify (which oowintool can't detect
> because it's just unzipped, not installed and added to the registry).
>
> With those endless problems fixed, the build is now progressing
> nicely:https://ci2.apache.org/#/builders/67/builds/625
>
>
> Regards,
>
>Matthias
>
>
>
> Regards
> Damjan
>
>
>
