Re: buildbot failure in ASF Buildbot on aoo-win7

[Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <or...@googlemail.com>]

Hi

On 02.04.2012 06:38, buildbot@apache.org wrote:
> The Buildbot has finished a build on builder aoo-win7 while building ASF Buildbot.
> Full details are available at:
>   http://ci.apache.org/builders/aoo-win7/builds/115
>
> Buildbot URL: http://ci.apache.org/
>
> Buildslave for this Build: bb-win7
>
> Build Reason: The Nightly scheduler named 'aoo-win7' triggered this build
> Build Source Stamp: [branch incubator/ooo/trunk] HEAD
> Blamelist:
>
> BUILD FAILED: failed shell_4
>
> sincerely,
>   -The Buildbot
>

The build broke in module sal, because file 'convertiscii.tab' could not be found.

This file has been removed a couple of days ago by hdu - 2012-03-28, rev. 1306246.
Thus, a clean build is needed to get the dependencies up to date.

Can someone please trigger a clean build for our Windows buildbot?
Thx in advance.

BTW, as our build system is quite complex and not complete regarding its 
dependencies I propose to always perform a clean build on our buildbots.


Best regards, Oliver.

Re: buildbot failure in ASF Buildbot on aoo-win7

[Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <or...@googlemail.com>]

Hi,

On 04.04.2012 20:58, Andrew Rist wrote:
>
>
> On 4/2/2012 2:07 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On 02.04.2012 06:38, buildbot@apache.org wrote:
>>> The Buildbot has finished a build on builder aoo-win7 while building ASF
>>> Buildbot.
>>> Full details are available at:
>>> http://ci.apache.org/builders/aoo-win7/builds/115
>>>
>>> Buildbot URL: http://ci.apache.org/
>>>
>>> Buildslave for this Build: bb-win7
>>>
>>> Build Reason: The Nightly scheduler named 'aoo-win7' triggered this build
>>> Build Source Stamp: [branch incubator/ooo/trunk] HEAD
>>> Blamelist:
>>>
>>> BUILD FAILED: failed shell_4
>>>
>>> sincerely,
>>> -The Buildbot
>>>
>>
>> The build broke in module sal, because file 'convertiscii.tab' could not be
>> found.
>>
>> This file has been removed a couple of days ago by hdu - 2012-03-28, rev.
>> 1306246.
>> Thus, a clean build is needed to get the dependencies up to date.
> There have been 2 clean builds (one was last night's build) since the sal issue
> first occurred.
> The problem remains - something else is wrong. This would be good to sort out.
>>
>> Can someone please trigger a clean build for our Windows buildbot?
> done twice.

The bad thing is that in the meantime another build breaker has been introduced.
Thus, the clean build breaks again :-(


>> Thx in advance.
>>
>> BTW, as our build system is quite complex and not complete regarding its
>> dependencies I propose to always perform a clean build on our buildbots.
> I am not so sure that the build system is all that complex. There are three main
> moving parts here:
>
> * The buildbot infrastructure. This is perhaps the most complex part,
> but is mostly handled by Apache Infra (thanks Gavin)
> * The 'machine recipe' which can be seen in the JIRAs setting up the
> buildbots - base OS + packages/requirements. Not rocket science,
> and very repeatable.
> * The 'build recipe' which is in the openoffice config for the
> buildbots. These break down into get source (svn co), run build,
> upload results. The syntax in the bb config is a bit cryptic, but
> you can figure it out pretty quick, at which point, there's nothing
> to exotic going on.
>
> We have a combination of clean builds (svn clobber) and incremental builds going
> on. The clobbered builds just take a long time. I'm not sure that we are really
> at a point where we need to do a clean build for every platform, for every
> build. It just sucks up bandwidth and resources, and takes longer.
> All of this is of course covered by a healthy dose of IMHO.
>

Oh, I did meant the build system of the build bot.
I meant the Apache OpenOffice build system.
E.g., if there is an incompatible change in module X, then a depending module Y 
is typically not build when doing an incremental build.

For me, the build bots are the first step to something like "continuous 
integration". Thus, from my point of view we can continue with incremental 
builds, but we should act asap, if a build bot does not succeed.
I would like to help here, if possible.
I would like to trigger a clean build as soon as possible, because it is needed 
due to the changes which have been made or to trigger another build as soon as 
possible after a fix for the build breaker has been made.

Is there an interface which I could use to trigger such builds?

Best regards, Oliver.

Re: buildbot failure in ASF Buildbot on aoo-win7

[Andrew Rist <an...@oracle.com>]

On 4/2/2012 2:07 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 02.04.2012 06:38, buildbot@apache.org wrote:
>> The Buildbot has finished a build on builder aoo-win7 while building 
>> ASF Buildbot.
>> Full details are available at:
>>   http://ci.apache.org/builders/aoo-win7/builds/115
>>
>> Buildbot URL: http://ci.apache.org/
>>
>> Buildslave for this Build: bb-win7
>>
>> Build Reason: The Nightly scheduler named 'aoo-win7' triggered this 
>> build
>> Build Source Stamp: [branch incubator/ooo/trunk] HEAD
>> Blamelist:
>>
>> BUILD FAILED: failed shell_4
>>
>> sincerely,
>>   -The Buildbot
>>
>
> The build broke in module sal, because file 'convertiscii.tab' could 
> not be found.
>
> This file has been removed a couple of days ago by hdu - 2012-03-28, 
> rev. 1306246.
> Thus, a clean build is needed to get the dependencies up to date.
There have been 2 clean builds (one was last night's build) since the 
sal issue first occurred.
The problem remains - something else is wrong.  This would be good to 
sort out.
>
> Can someone please trigger a clean build for our Windows buildbot?
done twice.
> Thx in advance.
>
> BTW, as our build system is quite complex and not complete regarding 
> its dependencies I propose to always perform a clean build on our 
> buildbots.
I am not so sure that the build system is all that complex.  There are 
three main moving parts here:

  * The buildbot infrastructure.  This is perhaps the most complex part,
    but is mostly handled by Apache Infra (thanks Gavin)
  * The 'machine recipe' which can be seen in the JIRAs setting up the
    buildbots - base OS + packages/requirements.  Not rocket science,
    and very repeatable.
  * The 'build recipe' which is in the openoffice config for the
    buildbots.  These break down into get source (svn co), run build,
    upload results.  The syntax in the bb config is a bit cryptic, but
    you can figure it out pretty quick, at which point, there's nothing
    to exotic going on.

We have a combination of clean builds (svn clobber) and incremental 
builds going on.  The clobbered builds just take a long time.  I'm not 
sure that we are really at a point where we need to do a clean build for 
every platform, for every build.  It just sucks up bandwidth and 
resources, and takes longer.
All of this is of course covered by a healthy dose of IMHO.

Andrew
>
>
> Best regards, Oliver.