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

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 3, 2010, at 7:05 PM, Rob Mahurin wrote:

> 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

Due to Apple's approach to gcc based mixed 32bit and 64bit toolset, building is 
rather tricky.

For reference, I've documented what I've done to build Octave on MacOS 10.6.4.

I'm not familiar with what you refer to when you wrote "I managed to install 
nix". Can you explain?

Ben

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