Re: Buildfarm client version 4.15 released

Unfortunately, this release contained a bug that only affects MSVC 
builds, which would silently fail on HEAD.

There is a bug fix release available at 
<http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/downloads/releases/build-farm-4_15_1.tgz> or 
you can just pick up the fixed version of run_build.pl (the only thing 
changed) at 
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PGBuildFarm/client-code/b80efc68c35ef8a1ced37b57b3d19a98b8ae5dd2/run_build.pl>

Sorry for the inconvenience.

cheers

andrew



On 04/17/2015 10:33 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I have just released version 4.15 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm Client 
> <http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/downloads/releases/build-farm-4_15.tgz>. 
> It can be downloaded at 
> <http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/downloads/releases/build-farm-4_15.tgz>
>
> Here's what's changed:
>
>  * support the new location for pg_upgrade
>  * support running tests of client programs
>  * support building, installing and running testmodules
>  * use a default ccache directory
>  * improve logging when running pg_upgrade tests
>  * handle odd location of Python3 regression tests
>  * add timestamp to default log_line_prefix
>  * make qw() errors in the config file fatal (helps detect errors)
>  * minor bug fixes for web script settings.
>  * allow for using linked git directories in non-master branches
>
> The last item might need a little explanation.  Essentially this can 
> reduce quite dramatically the amount of space required if you are 
> building on more than one branch. Instead of keeping, say, 6 checked 
> out repos for the current six tested branches, we keep one and link 
> all the others to it. This works almost exactly the way 
> git-new-workdir does (I stole the logic from there). This doesn't work 
> in a couple of situations: if you are using Windows or if you are 
> using git-reference. In these cases the new setting is simply ignored.
>
> To enable this new setting in an existing installation, do the 
> following after installing the new release:
>
>  * in your config file, add this setting:
>    git_use_workdirs => 1,
>  * remove the pgsql directory in each branch directory other than HEAD
>
> Another good thing to do in existing installations would be to add 
> "%m" to the beginning of the log_line_prefix setting in extra_config 
> stanza.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>