Nohup might be just the trick, I'll give that a shot. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 4:32 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: best practices - building on multiple os's
Loehr, Ruel wrote: > Hoping some others might have some insight, I've googled around for 2 > days but haven't yet found an answer that seems right. > > > > I have a project which is c++ based and have created an ant wrapper > around it to checkout, build, build an installer, and publish the > project. This part works pretty well. > > The only problem is that it takes 4 hours to build. 2 hours on > solaris, and 2 hours on windows. aah, I forgot about windows > > > The ant build structure is sort of like this: > > > > 1) call sshexec and run solaris build > > 2) then proceed on to building windows. > > > > I'd like to get the solaris and windows portion of the builds to run in > parallel but have not yet found a good way to do it. The sshexec task > blocks until the solaris portion is done. 1. you could run the solaris build in the background, sshexec the equivalent command as nohup ant -f project/build.xml release & you then need to synchronise for the results -setting a file in a shared directory, anything we can use <waitfor> to poll for. 2. I have heard -but no experience of- anthill pro, which can apparently do some parallel build-farm work. similarly, you can set up luntbuild, bamboo or other CI tools to do a scheduled build, so it could do a nightly release, or so 3. the third option is pretty low level, and is more an extension of (1); use smartfrog (disclaimer., I work on it), to deploy ant on the different machines. and choreograph the builds. This is really something I'd point you at if you are interested in doing cross-platform testing after the builds, where you want to collect the results on a single host, or if you were planning on learning smartfrog anyway. -steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
