contributing continuous builds:

[Edward Wagner]

Hello,

Do people contribute build status to emacs project? and if so how could I participate?

I've done a few searches for existence or work on continuous emacs builds.

searches:

  emacs builds

  emacs continuous builds

  emacs nightly builds

  emacs build results

  emacs automated builds

None of which pointed me to existing automated builds.

I have access to:

  Ubuntu 8.04 2.6.24 x86_64

  macbook1,1 OS 10.6.2

  macbookpro4,1 OS 10.6.2

I could contribute some cycles to build emacs on these machines to the community.  I currently have builds on these platforms pulling from git (git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git).

I've made a simple bash script to:

 make distclean

 git pull

 tar src   // I do this because the builds run on non persistent memory drive so if machine reboots I'll restore emacs dir instead of  pulling everything again from the server.

 ./configure

 make

As I was about to spend a few hours working this into a dashboard and one click setup for new machines. I though I would check with mailign list first, as it seems such tooling must exist already.

Any pointers or suggestions?

I would be happy to setup/share builds+results with community.  Perhaps savannah is providing something like this already?

The idea would be to have a central location for determining build status on different platforms.

Regards,

Ed
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