Re: [Tsp-devel] Continuous integration ?

[Robert de Vries]

Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2007/2/21, Stephane GALLES <address@hidden>:
> > > I really don't know if cruisecontrol is supposed to support this
> > > but seems to me more easy to obtain than a networked
> > > build server.
> > No, quite the contrary. It would be easier to obtain one single
> > continuous integration server, because one single server in enough
> > for all developpers.
> > More than one integration server is kind of meaningless.
>
> For a Java code it may be true.
> This is not quite true for TSP in C , since it should be able
> to build:
> - on Linux i386
> - on Linux x86_64
> - on Linux PPC (coming soon)
> - on  VxWorks (some flavor)
> - on Solaris at least Sparc version
> - on Win32
>
> You cannot (easily) achieve this with one box.
From my EuroSim experience I agree. I have 3 boxes (+some more coming) 
to test the following configurations:
1. Linux i386
   a. RedHat 7.3
   b. RedHat 8.0
   c. RedHat 9
   d. Fedora Core 1
   e. Fedora Core 2
   f. Fedora Core 3
   g. Fedora Core 4
   h. Fedora Core 5
   i. Fedora Core 6
   j. Suse Linux 9.1
   k. Suse Linux 9.2
   l. Debian 3.1
   m. RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 update 3
2. SGI IRIX 6.5
3. Win32 (Cygwin)

Obviously you need different boxes for different OS'es. (although you 
could run win32/cygwin on a VM)
The linux box has over 10 distributions installed (vanilla) to which I 
can chroot (root privileges required).
In the chroot environment I can run the automated build, install and 
test. I do this from an automated cron job every night. In the morning I 
receive a nice little report that tells me for which distributions which 
step/test failed, so that I can fix it the day after I broke it.
This has obvious advantages as it is much easier to remember what kind 
of changes you made yesterday than a week or a month ago.

If someone provides some scripts I am willing to host automated 
regression tests on the above mentioned platforms.

   Robert

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