buildslave volunteers list yourself here (esp. Mac OSX)

[semi]

How to setup a buildslave:

Make sure every step succeeds for you in the guides below. If any step fails, ask me (semi) to help.

cd /tmp
git-clone git://springlobby.info/git/semi/springlobby.git
cd springlobby
autogen.sh
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make

The above is very near what the buildbot will do, so make sure it succeeds manually first, to make troubleshooting easier later.

If you are on debian or ubuntu, do apt-get install buildbot. This takes care of the following tasks:

• install dependencies of buildbot
  
• create buildbot user (buildbot)
  
• create buildbot home dir (/var/lib/buildbot)
  
• create configuration file for the startup scripts (/etc/default/buildbot)
  
• create the startup scripts (/etc/init.d/buildbot)
  

If you are on some other distro, ask for help.

Even if you apt-get installed buildbot, you must continue with:

cd /tmp
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/buildbot/buildbot-0.7.6.tar.gz
tar xzf buildbot-0.7.6.tar.gz
wget http://buildbot.net/trac/attachment/ticket/130/better-support-for-git.patch?format=raw -O better-support-for-git.patch
cd buildbot-0.7.6
git-apply ../better-support-for-git.patch
PYTHONPATH=. trial buildbot.test
sudo python ./setup.py install

• initialize buildslave (you need to contact me for SLAVENAME and PASSWORD)
  

sudo -u buildbot mkdir /var/lib/buildbot/slaves
sudo -u buildbot buildbot create-slave /var/lib/buildbot/slaves/springlobby springlobby.info:9989 SLAVENAME PASSWORD

Edit the following files:

BASEDIR/info/admin should contain your name and email address. This is the “buildslave admin address”, and will be visible from the build status page (so you may wish to munge it a bit if address-harvesting spambots are a concern).

BASEDIR/info/host should be filled with a brief description of the host: OS, version, memory size, CPU speed, versions of relevant libraries installed (wxWidgets), and finally the version of the buildbot code which is running the buildslave.

Add this to /etc/default/buildbot (if you are on something else than debian or ubuntu, ask for help)

BB_NUMBER[1]=1
BB_NAME[1]="springlobby buildslave"
BB_USER[1]="buildbot"
BB_BASEDIR[1]="/var/lib/buildbot/slaves/springlobby"
BB_OPTIONS[1]=""
BB_PREFIXCMD[1]="nice"

And finally run:

sudo /etc/init.d/buildbot start

Then go visit http://buildbot.springlobby.info:8010/buildslaves to see that your slave connected.

If you could build multiple versions of wx widgets, that would help even more, so I can run the full test suite on your slave:

sudo apt-get install mingw32
cd /tmp
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-2.8.7.tar.gz
tar xzf wxWidgets-2.8.7.tar.gz

cd wxWidgets-2.8.7
mkdir build-mingw build-linux
cd build-mingw
../configure --enable-unicode --prefix=/var/lib/buildbot/lib/mingw/wx/2.8 --host=i586-mingw32msvc --build=i586-linux
make
sudo -u buildbot make install
cd ..

cd build-linux
../configure --enable-unicode --prefix=/var/lib/buildbot/lib/linux/wx/2.8
make
sudo -u buildbot make install

cd /tmp
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-2.6.4.tar.gz
tar xzf wxWidgets-2.6.4.tar.gz
cd wxWidgets-2.6.4
mkdir build-linux
cd build-linux
../configure --enable-unicode --prefix=/var/lib/buildbot/lib/linux/wx/2.6
make
sudo -u buildbot make install

[folkerthuizinga@…]

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel?
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 3010.940
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl cid xtpr
bogomips : 6026.86
clflush size : 64

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel?
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 3010.940
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl cid xtpr
bogomips : 6021.86
clflush size : 64

2gb ram