Andrew Dunstan writes:
> Essentially what I have is something like this pseudocode:
>
> cvs update
Be sure check past branches as well.
> check if there really was an update and if not exit
OK.
> configure; get config.log
Ideally, you'd try all possible option combinations for configure. Or at
least enable everything.
> make 2>&1 | make-filter >makelog
> make check 2>&1 | check-filter > checklog
You could also try out make distcheck. It tries out the complete build,
installation, uninstallation, regression test, and distribution building.
> (TBD) send config status, make status, check status, logfiles
OK.
> make distclean
When I played around with this, always copied the CVS tree to a new
directory and deleted that one at the end. That way, bugs in the clean
procedure (known to happen) don't trip up the whole process.
> The send piece will probably be a perl script using LWP and talking to a
> CGI script.
That will be the difficult part to organize, if it's supposed to be
distributed and autonomous.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
