On 10/25/12 9:30 PM, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311) wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2012, at 7:53 PM, Boyce Griffith <griff...@cims.nyu.edu> wrote: > >> On 10/25/12 6:49 PM, Roy Stogner wrote: >>> On second thought, this idea gets less stupid if your "buddy" isn't a >>> human being. We could always do what a lot of other projects do and >>> auto-upload a "nightly" snapshot. The last thing BuildBot could do >>> after a revision passes all tests is "make dist", date stamp the >>> tarball, and scp it to the public server. I'd still prefer just >> >> One advantage of this is that you have the build system built by a >> consistent autotools. Re-bootstrapping with different autotools could >> generate a lot of changes in svn. > > definitely a good point. As it stands now, our bootstrap will *build* > autotools on systems where the prerequisites are not met, so that's another > approach. Regardless, the nightly 'make diet' tarball is not a bad idea > either… I can remember a long time ago feeling a little hesitant checking > out people's svn repos just to try building a code.
You might want to set it up *always* to build autotools, regardless of the installed version. Although I don't know if the same version of autotools generates consistent files on different systems... (You would hope so, but I've never checked. I wouldn't be surprised either way.) -- Boyce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
