Re: windows regression failure - prepared xacts

Dave Page wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org 
>>[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of 
>>Andrew Dunstan
>>Sent: 14 July 2005 13:35
>>To: Tom Lane
>>Cc: PostgreSQL-development
>>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] windows regression failure - prepared xacts
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>>ON a related note, we need more Windows boxes on the 
>>buildfarm - ideally 
>>living in a data center somewhere so we can automate builds, 
>>rather than 
>>relying on my laptop and Jim's Windows box which seems to build 
>>intermittently.
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>I might be able to help out there. 
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Excellent.

>What's required to be part of the
>build farm?
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Short answer:

. your box will need to be able to contact http://www.pgbuildfarm.org 
either directly or via proxy, and it wiull need access to a CVS repo, 
either the one at postgresql.org or a mirror (you can set up your own 
mirror using CSVup on a linux or FBSD box).
. have a working postgresql build environment for your platform (for 
Windows this means MSys/MinGW with the libz and libintl stuff,  and 
ideally native Python and Tcl).
. Windows only: you will need a native perl installed as well as the one 
in the MSys DTK. The one from ActiveState works fine.
. download and unpack the latest release of client code from 
http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000040
. read instructions at 
http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000040/4/PGBuildFarm-HOWTO.txt
. get the software running locally using flags --force--nostatus --nosend
. register your machine at http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/register.html
. when you receive credentials, put them in the config file, and 
schedule regular builds (without those flags) for the branches you want 
to support. (For Windows that should be HEAD and optionally REL8_0_STABLE).

Feel free to ask me questions if anything isn't clear.

There's a short description of how it works at 
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/02/24/pg_buildfarm.html

cheers

andrew