Re: build farm failures

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
>>
>>>> This sort of thing is usually a
>>>> symptom of somebody having run a build in the repo directly, a thing
>>>> that buildfarm owners have been repeatedly advised not to do.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This is something I do not recall doing, however it's possible. though
>>> this does make me ask why are the build dependencies in the Makefile are
>>> not properly setup to tell that the .y needs to be rebuilt (which I would
>>> assume would make this problem also go away)
>>>
>> Thje way cvs works is that it gives the file the date it has in the
>> repository, so if your preproc.c is newer than the preproc.y, make will
>> detect that and not rebuild it. If Michael's checkin occurs between the
>> time the repo is updated and the time bison gets run on the original file
>> this will happen. But if you never ever build in the repo then it won't,
>> because buildfarm only ever builds in a copy (unless you're building with
>> vpath, in which case it cleans up the generated files).
>>
>
> Hum, so why not clean up the files when not in vpath as well?
>
> find . -name .cvsignore | while read line
> do
> dir=$(dirname $line)
> cd $dir
> rm -fv `cat .cvsignore`
> cd $OLDPWD
> done
>
>

Because they are not supposed to be there in the first place! If the
buildfarm owner builds in the repo that is pilot error.

And, btw, buildfarm is not a shell script. We use File::Find to do this
sort of thing.

cheers

andrew