[Mono-devel-list] Automated builds

Ian MacLean ianm at ActiveState.com
Thu May 13 22:40:44 EDT 2004


Hi Jarek,
Would you be able to post the actual script you run ?  I'm sure others 
would find it useful.
Ian
Jaroslaw Kowalski wrote:

>Hi guys!
>
>I really dream of a tinderbox-like automated build system that would detect
>non-buildable CVSes early. Today I've encountered 3 separate issues that
>prevented "make bootstrap" from running correctly.
>
>With repeatability in mind I've developed a clean and repeatable mono
>rebuild script:
>
>0. Backup the entire mono tree (/opt/mono in my case)
>1. cvsclean of "mcs" and "mono" modules - this gets rid of every
>file/directory not in CVS
>2. cvs update
>3. (cd mono && make bootstrap && make install)
>4. (cd mcs && cvsclean . && make install) - to make sure the new setup is
>able to recompile itself when installed
>
>In case of a failure I restore everything from a backup copy. On success I
>zip the entire mono setup as "last-known-good" configuration that I can
>return to.
>
>This guarantees that I have a repeatable and dependable build. I usually run
>this as a cron job on my Fedora Core 1 machine that is 99% idle and can do
>this task easily.
>
>If anyone is interested I can send you a notification + a build log on each
>failure and then again on each "fixed" build.
>
>Jarek
>
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