Re: Geometry regression test failure, CVS HEAD, Mac OS/X

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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> David Fetter wrote:
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>> Kind people,
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>> Lately (past 3 days or so, but I don't know exactly how far back this
>> goes), I've been getting some regression test failures for geometry
>> with CVS HEAD on OS/X.
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> We have seen a number of reports recently of things broken some time in
> the past. As I am currently thinking about what I want to do in the next
> dev cycle, this might be an opportune time for me to raise again my
> previous suggestion of a distributed build farm, so we get timely and
> automated warnings of breakage. I started creating a script to do this,
> but got sidetracked onto more important things (like Windows stuff, CSV,
> dollar quoting), but I am prepared to restart the effort if enough
> people are interested. Essentially, this would involve installation of a
> perl script to be run from cron (or Windows equivalent - automating the
> build for Windows might be challenging ...), which would check out code
> from CVS, run "configure; make check" and then send the results to a
> central URL. Centrally, we would store the results and have a summary
> page, with access to full logs if necessary in case of errors.
>
> How we classify the results is also an open question. So far my thoughts
> are to classify by <Architecture,OS+Version,Compiler+Version>.
>
> Thoughts?

This can be a good model to follow:

http://boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs/

Regards
Gaetano Mendola