Re: Instability in Hydra build

[Rik]

On 04/12/2016 07:24 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 04/08/2016 02:14 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
>
>> I've used both docker and vagrant to set up containers or VMs to build
>> Octave for other distros. I like these approaches because they are
>> command line driven and they allow me to easily share my Octave build
>> directory with the guest OS. I can write up something on how to set up
>> either if needed.
>
> I've been using virtual box and doing normal installs of distributions
> that I need to use but that's often time consuming and difficult because
> of various installation oddities.
>
> If there is something easier then it would be great to have a short guide
> on the wiki.  If there are tutorials elsewhere, then just having pointers
> to them would be helpful.

I ended up using VMware only because I was already familiar with it.  It
was still a several hour process to install an i686 version of Ubuntu
because something always goes wrong.  In the end, I was able to build
Octave in the VM but I don't get any segfault in oct.parse.in.yy-tst.

--Rik