[kde-freebsd] ensuring KDE svn trunk builds on BSD

[Dima Panov]

On Wednesday 18 November 2009 08:07:43 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 November 2009 19:38:42 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hey there,
> 
> > I'm looking for people who are interested in providing Nightly builds of
> >  KDE 4 svn trunk for Solaris.
> > Recently we set up cdash dashboards for several KDE modules (kdesupport,
> > kdelibs, kdebase, kdepimlibs, kdepim, kdenetwork, kdeadmin,
> > kdeaccessibility , kdeexamples) on http://my.cdash.org.
> >
> > The idea is to build KDE every night on different machines and operating
> > systems to make sure it stays building everywhere.
> > If something breaks, notification emails with the errors can be sent,
> > e.g. to this list or to the committers.
> >
> > Until now only me and Volker Krause are providing Nightly builds there,
> > and both on Linux. Now most KDE developers are using Linux, so having
> > Nightly builds on non-Linux systems is actually even more important.
> >
> > So, is anybody here interested to run a Nightly build of KDE on
> > Free/Net/OpenBSD once per day ?
> 
> I'm interested in doing that, as every once in a while I try to compile
>  trunk and make sure it runs at least on FreeBSD. I believe the FreeBSD
>  team has something like that for their ports (tinderbox, for example), but
>  that only compiles the stable releases.
> 
> Dear porters (fluffy, tabthorpe, miwi etc), do you have any opinion on
>  this?

Yep, we widely use tinderboxes with various jais inside. 
Tracking of nightly svn snaps in tindy can be realised in simple way, but will take a lots 
of system resources while building. 

Say for myself - I have primary only my 3-years-old laptop for development :(
However, I can help to the project if it fit in my resources :)


> Alex, do you think it would be somehow useful for the porters team as well
> (porters == packagers) or does it only make sense for KDE developers to
>  make sure trunk compiles smoothly?
> 
> > I still have to document this somewhere, probably on techbase, on how to
> >  get this working.
> > Short version: check out kdesdk/, there in cmake/scripts/ is a shell
> > script Nightlys-2.6.2, which is the shell script which drives the Nightly
> > build on my machine. If you open it, the places which have to be changed
> > should be obvious, i.e. the path to cmake, setting CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH, and
> > not that much more.
> >
> > So, if you are interested, please let me know and I'll help with setting
> > it up.
> > The first step should probably be that you head over to my.cdash.org and
> >  get yourself an account there.
> 
> Well, I'm interested in helping. What are the next steps?
> 
> > Alex
> 

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