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

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 18 November 2009, Dima Panov wrote:
> 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

I'd really like to have that data collected via cdash, so we have it for all 
the different systems (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Windows) in one central point.

> will take a lots of system resources while building.

Yes, on my development machine it also takes 3 or 4 hours or so, a 3 year old 
laptop is probably to slow.

Alex