Build Tools

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There are a couple of scripts I've written to help me with development of DisOrder (and of other things).

polybuild

polybuild can build multiple programs on multiple computers; it produces a HTML “scoreboard” showing the results. I've been using it for a while from time to time to ensure that changes made in one place haven't broken something elsewhere. Here's an example while a build is underway:

For each platform, the left column is for the build (./configure and make) and the right column for tests (make check). Grey means hasn't started, yellow means underway, green means success and red means failure. As you can see, VCS is having some trouble on some of the platforms. The various symbols (other than “?”) link to logfiles containing the relevant build output. Here's the final state:

(heceptor, my FreeBSD machine, doesn't show up because it's turned off. Since I know this perfectly well its invisibility doesn't matter to me, but obviously this would be a problem for some users.)

stabilize

stabilize is rather more recent. I use it to maintain a disorder.stable branch that tracks disorder.dev; changes are only pushed from the latter to the former when the branch can pass make check. It also emails me if anything has gone wrong, so if I didn't bother to run the tests myself (they take quite a while) then I still find out within the hour that I made a mistake.

stabilize has no associated pretty pictures l-)

Both are quite optimized for my particular setup, but it should be at least possible to use them more widely. Also both only support Bazaar but they could be adapted to other version control systems.

Both can be acquired by:
bzr clone http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/bzr/rjk-buildtools.dev