Re: nightly build error

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

Don Cohen wrote:
> So I gather the reason you stopped was that the facility disappeared,
> and that you view the nightly builds as a good thing.

yes.

> For now I'm your nightly build farm.  (Or at least one of 'em.)

oh, NBF with brains! sweet!!!

>  > I did not reconfigure nightly.
> I am doing so now.  That's considerably less time than the build.
> It also is clearly useful for finding certain problems, 

indeed.
I was not reconfiguring nightly because the admins there asked to try to reduce 
  the load.

> On the other hand, I'm not rebuilding libsigsegv, libffcall, etc.

I was not either - I only checked for their presence, and, if not found, built 
them.

> I currently get two daily emails, one from each machine.
> I have to look at the output to decide whether things are working.
> Currently I look at the tail of the output of each major command.
> If it doesn't look like what I expect then I get to investigate
> further and report the problem.

the exit code from "make check" is a good indicator of success.