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.
All the *nix buildbots are now green and should be building 100% reliably. 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. 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 :-(. 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
