[Cvs-test-results] Re: Build CVS (TRUNK) failed.

[Dennis Jones]

Hello,

I've been letting my nightly automated build system fail on the CVS feature 
release branch for a very long time (many months), and nobody seems to care 
or be doing anything to correct the failure.

I have two questions:

1) Is it no longer useful to anyone for me to continue building CVS on a 
nightly basis for test purposes?  I volunteered to do this a long time ago 
because I thought it would be useful/beneficial to CVS 
developers/maintainers to see if/when their commits broke the build. 
However, the fact that the build has been broken for many months now and 
nobody has shown any concern over it suggests that it might be a waste of 
time (albeit very little time, especially since it is automated!).

2) Even if it is not useful to the developers/maintainers, it seems obvious 
that fixing this (or offering a solution) would certainly help those who 
build CVS on their own Windows machines if/when they download the CVS 
sources.  Perhaps there is something I must do on my end to allow the build 
to succeed (cvs1-11-x-branch is fine, btw), but I have no idea what that 
might be because I normally leave that up to whoever is supposed to be 
maintaining the Windows builds and commit the fixes to the repository.  Is 
there a problem with how my system invokes the Windows build?

My nightly build is executed like this (in a batch file invoked as a 
scheduled task):

call vcvars32.bat
NMAKE /A /I /f "cvsnt.mak" CFG="cvsnt - Win32 Release"

...which has been failing with the 'inttypes.h" error (see below) for many 
months.  I'd love to get this fixed and get the nightly build back on track. 
Can anyone offer insight into how it could/should be corrected?

- Dennis


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Subject: Build CVS (TRUNK) failed.

> classify.c
> .\lib\xsize.h(59) : warning C4307: '-' : integral constant overflow
> .\lib\xsize.h(59) : warning C4307: '*' : integral constant overflow
> NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make '".\lib\inttypes.h"'
> Stop.