[Insight-developers] Gerrit Topic Experimental Builds

[Bill Lorensen]

A bare minimum is a Mac, a Linux, a Visual Studio. This covers a high
percentage.

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> This was one of the things that came up when we were discussing
> CDash at Home - Linux, Mac and Unix operating systems tend to have one
> compiler, although there are certainly many exceptions to this,
> whereas a single Windows system often has multiple compilation/build
> environments we want to test.
>
> I can certainly add a few more requirements. The Gerrit robot is
> currently requesting a Linux, Mac and Windows build. There are no
> other requirements placed. I could subdivide Windows a little, but how
> many options do we want for a general patch? I think 3-4 is about the
> most we want to require, and the nightlies must handle the much larger
> combination once stuff is integrated.
>
> We could of course add some way to request special builds. I also
> think that on Windows Visual Studio 2008 is likely the generator to
> target, but we possibly want a MinGW or Cygwin build. These are the
> equivalent of continuous, and for most projects 3 has been enough
> which is where my initial logic came from in specifying the builds
> scheduled to CDash at Home.
>
> Marcus
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Wes Turner <wes.turner at kitware.com> wrote:
>> I can bring in an old laptop with Vista and VS 8.  I don't have the time to
>> set it up until the week after RSNA, but if someone else wants to take the
>> hit, I can bring it in tomorrow.  (It needs the new virus software, and
>> probably some OS updates.)
>> - Wes
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:11 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
>>> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >> Folks,
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm sure this is documented somewhere. This morning I pushed a topic
>>> >> to Gerrit. Shortly after that, the (very busy) Kitware Robot informed
>>> >> me that she had submitted experimental builds for my topic:
>>> >>
>>> >> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Insight&filtercount=1&field1=buildname/string&compare1=63&value1=SharedLibrary_DLL_Linkage
>>> >>
>>> >> There is a Mac and Linux build. This is great.
>>> >>
>>> >> Can the Robot add a Visual Studio build? That would help me a lot.
>>> >>
>>> > The robot is requesting a Windows build, which right now should mean a
>>> > Visual Studio build. The redwall machine has been running our Windows
>>> > build requests, but maybe this one failed in some way. Let me see if I
>>> > can go through the logs later to see if I can see what happened.
>>> >
>>> > Marcus
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>>> arrakis is also doing cdash at home builds, (Win32 XP, VS 7.1) but its
>>> response time is less than ideal... it's an old/under-powered machine
>>> not well suited for modern full ITK builds. Release builds (non-Debug)
>>> would make this machine more useful because the test suite would
>>> execute much faster.
>>>
>>> You can see arrakis *sometimes* produces results:
>>>
>>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Insight&filtercount=2&showfilters=1&filtercombine=and&field1=site/string&compare1=63&value1=arrakis&field2=buildstarttime/date&compare2=83&value2=2010-10-01
>>>
>>> It reboots nightly around 9:50 pm Eastern time -- it may be in the
>>> middle of an attempted build when that occurs.
>>>
>>>
>>> Similar query that shows the redwall cdash at home results:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Insight&filtercount=3&showfilters=1&filtercombine=and&field1=site/string&compare1=63&value1=redwall&field2=buildstarttime/date&compare2=83&value2=2010-10-01&field3=buildtype/string&compare3=61&value3=Experimental
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>>
>>
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