That's consistent with trybots doing debug builds.
Uninitialized var warnings only show up in optimized builds,
nothing we can do there but turn on optimizations.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Andrew Scherkus<[email protected]> wrote:
> On a related note, Frank (cc'd) ran into an issue where the mac try bots
> have a less-strict compiler warning error than the build bots, which led to
> a broken build once he checked in: http://codereview.chromium.org/155834
> Probably a simple config tweak somewhere, but interesting nonetheless.
> Andrew
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Paweł Hajdan Jr.
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> One thing that would help us keep the tree more green is avoiding compile
>>> failures. A compile failure is very bad, because without binaries the tests
>>> can't run, and then we have to wait for all of them to run, which may reveal
>>> additional failures etc.
>>> I'm actually surprised by some failures on buildbot, but at least one
>>> thing was not surprising for me: Windows Release compile failures when the
>>> Debug compiles fine (because we don't have Release trybot).
>>
>> How often does something run in Windows when compiled with the release
>> configuration but not the debug?  I've definitely seen it, but I'm not sure
>> it's terribly common.  My guess is that there are other causes of the build
>> breaking that should be addressed first.  Are there any stats on this?
>> My gut feeling is that many of the build breaks are for things that never
>> passed on a try bot.  For example, WebKit gardening patches almost never
>> work on the try bots so we just ignore them.  I think working on stuff like
>> this will bear more fruit.
>> Not to mention that each bot costs a lot in terms of the machine,
>> power, maintenance time, etc.
>>
>>>
>>> What do you think? Do you have any ideas how we could avoid more compile
>>> failures, even if they are not possible to apply now due to lack of
>>> resources? (for example adding trybots, which seems to not happen soon).
>>> I was also thinking about allowing simple check-ins when the tree is
>>> "waiting for cycle" state (when the sheriff wants to verify that bots cycle
>>> green after a lot of redness). The status would say ("Tree closed, waiting
>>> for cycle; ask sheriff to commit a simple change"), or maybe some
>>> abbreviation for that. It would help people getting code in, and the sheriff
>>> could require really a lot from that change (like full green trybot pass
>>> etc). What do you think about that (especially sheriffs)?
>>
>> I think you can always ask the sheriffs if you can put something small in.
>>  I don't see the point of making any such message policy or a convention.
>>  That said, unless it doesn't compile or is REALLY obviously OK, I don't
>> think it's a good idea.
>>
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