[GEM-dev] build errors on 10.3

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 13, 2006, at 11:11 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> The Mac OS X 10.3 build is still dying here.  There hasn't been a  
>> 10.3
>> fix for many weeks.  Could this be fixed?  It could be done with an
>> #ifdef for Mac OS X 10.3 alone, at the very least.  Then we'd have
>> Pd-extended builds on 10.3 again.
>>
>
> so i have made the code conditional ("#ifdef __GNUC__ < 4")
>
> apart from that, wouldn't it be a good idea, to have the nightly  
> builds
> be a bit more tolerant to build-failures? e.g. compile the submodules
> (libraries) with the "-k" flag;
> this would allow to have nightly builds with the libraries missing,  
> that
> failed to install (but nevertheless there would be a nightly build)

Yes, it should work a lot better, but that takes more work that just  
make -k unfortunately.  I don't think setting the auto-build scripts  
to use make -k would be a good idea because then it would be quite  
hard to find the errors.

Instead, I think we should setup BuiltBot:

http://buildbot.sourceforge.net/

That will take quite a bit of work, but I think would be very  
useful.  It will try building everything on a schedule, plus it'll  
build anything that was just checked into CVS, then email the person  
who made that checkin if there was an error.

But that will also take a lot of work on the Pd build system to make  
it work like that.

.hc

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