Re: Continuous build tool: we've got a Hydra jobset

[Rob Mahurin]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:56:13AM -0700, bpabbott wrote:
> > On 03 Aug, 2010,at 02:04 PM, David Grundberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've met some helpful people at the GNU Hackers' Meeting that pointed me
> > towards build farms that automatically updates and builds repositories.
> > One of them was Hydra, which unfortunately didn't have Mercurial
> > support. The Hydra people just emailed me and said they added support
> > for Mercurial, and even better, they have Octave building on the system.
> > So now I just have to figure out how to maximize the opportunities
> > given to us. The coverage thing is very interesting and I wish I had
> > time to really dig into it.
> > 
> > http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/octave-default
> > 
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/devel.html#Hydra
> > 
> > Grundberg
> 
> I notice that the attempts to build on Darwin (MacOSX) is
> failing. Is there someone I/we can do to get that working on the
> farm?
> 
> Ben

Hmmm.  Probably if somebody can translate a working MacOS build script
to the package manager ("nix") that underlies Hydra, then the builds
will start to work.  I know there have been posts of ./configure lines
to use on MacOS in the past, and I don't think anyone can use
"./configure" alone.

Unfortunately it looks like the failures are happening while building
dependency packages --- there's no evidence that Hydra is ready to
build octave on macos.  I managed to install nix and request
installation of octave-3.2.4 on my Mac; it fails trying to build
gfortran, one of the failures listed in the hydra output.

This looks like a very useful tool, Grundberg, and one whose existence
I was just recently wishing for.  Thanks for pointing that out.

Cheers,
Rob