Hello all, we have a build farm which we have set up to have multiple
OS/distributions/versions build the latest exim source code. This
allows us developers to relatively quickly see if any changes we
commit are going to break anything on systems other than those on
which we write code.
If you look at the list of systems which are currently in it, it's
very heavily populated by Linux boxen. We would like to ask anybody
with a Unix based system who can afford a little bit of space, able to
install development packages required to compile, and a periodic cron
job to please consider joining the build farm. It will greatly help
our coverage. There are no Suse boxen on the list either, so we'd
also appreciate someone with a Suse system joining. Multiple OS
versions are also welcome as it helps to know when we are breaking
things on older OS's.
Steps:
1. Get the build farm software up and running, following the detailed
instructions at
https://github.com/mrballcb/exim-build-farm-client/wiki/Installation .
I just added another host to the build farm over the weekend and it
took me 20 minutes.
2. Once you can manually run a build (even if it fails), submit a
request to join at
http://eximbuild.mrball.net/cgi-bin/register-form.pl
3. The submission creates a temporary, random name. Send me an email
with a hostname that you would like to use for the machine you
submitted. Use the email you submitted the host with so I can make
sure I activate and apply the name to the correct submitted host.
4. If there are build errors that we determine are due to missing
packages and/or configuration issues, we'll email you (or hit you up
in #exim irc channel on Freenode) asking for additional packages or
build configuration settings.
Email me or hit me in #exim on Freenode if you have questions.
...Todd
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