buildbot: run SVNPoller with --trust-server-cert
I asked this similar question and got a satisfactory answer. However, doing the same with SVNPoller doesn't work. So how can I pass --trust-server-cert as an extra param to SVNPoller in buildbot ...
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Visual Studio DLL dependencies cause unnecessary re-link
I have a (native C++) visual studio solution with several projects in it, some of them being DLLs. The dependencies of the projects on each other is fed into "Project dependencies". Whenever a DLL is being changed and re-built, regardless of wether this change affects other projects or not (that is, only the implementation and not the de...
Maven and the JOGL library?
I've been studying Maven in my free time over the last several days but can't seem to figure out how to organize a project so that the JOGL libraries are used. I would preferably like the following: Automatically download, if necessary, the OS-specific JOGL zip file from here (contains 4 jar files and some native library files (.so/.dl...
Understanding AppDomains in Windows
I am trying to better understand appDomains. From my understanding Windows runs all applications in a process. each application is encapsulated in it's own object that resides within this process. This object also holds some global varibles which can not be shared. All objects that are in the process can not share any data with one anoth...
buildbot: buildbot.slave.commands.SVN vs. buildbot.steps.source.SVN
Buildbot question: When to use each of these classes: buildbot.slave.commands.SVN and buildbot.steps.source.SVN? I want the class that is used to check out a project from svn. ...
Best way to handle multiple configuration matrix with rake?
I have an application that can be built in one of 2 configurations (Company1 or Company2) and in debug or release mode. Company1 Release All builds done with the Release compiler flag Build and output core dll files to build directory Build and output Company1Plugin.dll to build directory Copy tools\templates\log4net.config to b...
Building my project with make
I'm working to improve the long languishing Linux build process for Bitfighter, and am having problems with make. My process is actually quite simple, and since make is (nearly) universal, I want to stick with it if I can. Below I've attached my current Makefile, which works, but clumsily so. I'm looking for ways to improve it, and ha...
Ant dirset that includes the root directory
How can I define a dirset in Ant, which includes two directories: the project's base directory, and a subdirectory "test"? It looks like you can't specifically include the root directory of the dirset, using either "/", ".", or "". For example, this includes "./test", but not ".": <dirset dir="." id="myDirs"> <include name="." /> ...
Tutorials for setting up a robust small-to-medium project *nix build
I'm mostly a spoiled Windows + Visual Studio (or Borland C++ or whatever, in the past) developer. Although my first contact with Unix was around 20 years ago, and I've used Linux on-and-off for some years, I have only a very limited idea of how to set up a build on a *nix system. For example, I'm OK with the basics of make - I can get a...
Best way to maintain and develop 3 similar sites
It would kind of be like S[OFU] except there will be more differences between the site. What are good ways to develop 3 site at once with a different look and different functionality? I believe with the look i may only change the CSS and some backend data for different categories. I also need some functionality and options to be specifi...
What exactly is considered "breaking the build?"
In a CI environment, what exactly is considered a broken build? There are several answers I can imagine (any combination of compiles, tests pass, metrics are in range, documentation exists etc.) , but I am not sure which of these are cannoncial. For example, just today it happened to me that I actually checked in all code changes but f...
Procedure for managing resources (images) in Visual Studio build.
I have a software product that is used by two customers. There is one codebase, the only difference is that each customer has their logo on the product. My question is, what is the best way to manage the codebase so that I can easily build the project for each customer, and never use the wrong logo? I currently have both images in a dir...
Maven parent pom vs modules pom
There seem to be several ways to structure parent poms in a multiproject build and I wondering if anyone had any thoughts on what the advantages / drawbacks are in each way. The simplest method of having a parent pom would be putting it in the root of a project i.e. myproject/ myproject-core/ myproject-api/ myproject-app/ pom.x...
How to build a boost dependent project using regular makefiles?
I'm working on a c++ project, and we recently needed to include a small part of boost in it. The boost part is really minimal (Boost::Python), thus, using bjam to build everything looks like an overkill (besides, everyone working on the project feels comfortable with make, and has no knowloedge of jam). I made quite some tests already, ...
Good Examples of Build and Deployment Documentation
Hi, I'm in the middle of writing a build and deployment document for a major enterprise platform, and I would appreciate a good example to use as a template for how to structure the document. Can anyone point me towards a good example of a well written build document? It does not have to be an online document, but could also be includ...
Visual Studio 2005 Pre-link Event: Any way to get linker input file names?
I've made a tool that operates directly on .obj files before they are linked. I can specify my tool on the pre-link event command line and manually specify each .obj file, but is there any macro or technique that I can use that will automatically include all .obj files from a particular project? There are other .obj files in the same dir...
What use does ./configure serve (other than checking dependencies)
Why does every source package that uses a makefile come with a ./configure script, what does it do? As far as I can tell, it actually generates the makefile? Is there anything that can't be done in the makefile? ...
JAVA_HOME variable under OSX... what is it exactly?
I've been trying to build evaldictator on OSX. Unfortunately I have little to no idea of what ant or scons actually do. My main question is when I do something like export JAVA_HOME='/lab/speech/java/jdk1.5.0_06' what am I doing. Thanks in advance ...
How to get the DateTime when the current process started?
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How do I count the number of git commits affecting a given subtree?
My version number looks like 0.1.3 and has two components: 0.1 (the tag) 3 (commits after tag) All this information easy to obtain from git describe --tags. For version 0.1.3 git describe may look like 0.1-3-g53d4dec All of this works fine, but I'm looking for the number of commits affecting only a given subtree, not the whole r...