Re: Stage Configure failed with status 77

Gabor Szabo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing a set of articles about Automated Testing in Open Source Software
> http://www.szabgab.com/blog/2007/07/1183825266.html
>
> As I would like to write about PostgreSQL as well I tried to setup the
> BuildFarm client.
>
> Here is the output:
>
> $ ./run_build.pl --test
> [16:44:34] checking out source ...
> [16:45:20] checking if build run needed ...
> [16:45:20] copying source to pgsql.24847 ...
> [16:45:20] running configure ...
> Branch: HEAD
> Stage Configure failed with status 77
>
> What does this mean?
>
> Digging a bit in HEAD/lastrun-logs/config.log
> revealed that I was missing ccache but it was not really clean from
> that error message.
> Well, never mind, this must be testing my capabilities as well :-)
>
> The second run was slightly better:
>
> $ ./run_build.pl --test
> [16:49:44] checking out source ...
> [16:50:11] checking if build run needed ...
> [16:50:11] copying source to pgsql.25565 ...
> [16:50:12] running configure ...
> [16:50:42] running make ...
> Branch: HEAD
> Stage Make failed with status 2
>
> This time I found HEAD/lastrun-logs/make.log much faster
> In that file I got tons of error messages mostly related to plpython.c
> e.g.
> plpython.c:2984: error: 'PLy_exc_error' undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> I installed python-dev and it seems my guess was correct regarding what was
> missing as on the third attempt the build made further progress and
> in the end I got
>
> All stages succeeded
>
> Nice.
> These two attempts to stop me from running the build client were not
> really serious. I spent only 15 minutes trying to locate the problem
> and you
> even get this mail as a result. :-)

try run_build.pl --help and look at the options :-)

In effect something like ./run_build.pl --test --verbose=2 would be much
more useful for testing

Stefan