[M3devel] Short status of CM3 Hudson regression testing on opencsw.org machines

[Olaf Wagner]

After several weeks (months?) of little activity I was able to setup
some more build and regression test jobs on the opencsw.org machines.

There are now sets of jobs for

   SOLsun built on Solaris 10 (works) run on current10s.opencsw.org
   SOLsun built on Solaris 9 (seems now to work, too) run on current9s
   I386_SOLARIS built on Solaris 10 (still several problems) run on current10x

For the instruction and exhilaration of those willing to read on I'll
give some details.

One of the problems was entirely my own fault. In the regression defs.sh
script, about a dozen error messages were written to 1>2 instead of 1>&2.
The second correct form redirects stdout to stderr, while the first just
writes the contents to a file named 2 :-/ It's not that I haven't got
enough experience with writing shell scripts (in fact I've done that
hundreds of times), but I must have made a typo in one place in the
original file version and copied that to many other locations. It is
interesting that I didn't notice that for years, though I've looked
at it all the time. I was getting desparate about unexplained stops
in the scripts tonight when finally a veil seems to have been removed
from my eyes.

Currently I know of two other problems running our builds and tests
on the opencsw machines.

1. cvs update does not work on current10x (Solaris on x86) when run from
    Hudson.
    It does work on current10s and current9s.
    It does work if I disable compression (but can do that only for all jobs,
    which would be a bad pessimization).
    It does work if I run it from the command line.
    cvs co in Hudson works OK, too.

    All attempts to update workspaces by Hudson fail with

      [cm3] $ cvs -q -z3 update -PdC -D "Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:59:46 PM UTC"
      ...
      cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above  
messages if any)
      FATAL: CVS failed. exit code=1

    Obviously, there are no above messages to consult.
    If anybody has any ideas what could be causing this, I'd like to
    hear it. Without update, all the jobs will run rather long on that
    machine.
    All machines run exactly the same version of CVS.

2. Copying any archive files out again via ssh and scp has not worked
    yet. I still need to investigate this, but have hope that I can make
    this work.

Builds for more target platforms should be setup on those machines,
but it's tedious work. If anybody wants to take a try, that will be
appreciated.

Olaf
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