Buildbot and Cairo
Name
Cairo on Buildbot is a project to build the Cairo graphics library in an automated manner with Buildbot and be able to run tests and performance tests
Leader(s)
Contributor(s)
- Vladimir Vukicevic
- Ben Hearshum
Project News
- Mar 06 2008 - Started writing cairobuild.py grouping steps and CairoTests class which generates summary
- Feb 29 2008 - Why does the TESTS take so long on MacOS X? It is ridiculous!!
- Feb 29 2008 - Added steps to build on MacOS X
- Feb 16 2008 - Updated Cairo project page and first proper release
- Feb 11 2008 - Steps are written but some issues have to fixed
- Jan 19 2008 - Project Proposal from Vladimir Vukicevic.
Release
Requirements
Mar. 7th
- The steps to build on Mac have been added to Seneca Hera Try Server Setup/buildbot-configs/
and the blog post explaining a lot of details about how much has been done is here: (Sess14-Buildbot on Cairo)
- svn co http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/Seneca_Hera_Try_Server_Setup/buildbot-configs/cairomaster/
- buildbot create-slave ./cairoslave localhost:9876 macslave slavepassword (change macslave for linuxslave when trying to run in Linux)
- buildbot start cairomaster
- buildbot start cairoslave
- firefox http://localhost:8020 //OR open it with any browser
Tasks
| Task |
Details |
Priority |
Contrib. |
Status |
Target |
Link(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build Cairo manually | Manually build Cairo | Med | armenzg | Done | Blog: Building Cairo | |
| Buildbot and Cairo on Linux | Build on my laptop Cairo and run tests; Missing perf tests | High | armenzg | Done | 15 Feb | Blog: Buildbot with Cairo |
| Fix GIT and SUDO issue | * Fixed by delete checked out source code and ./configure --prefix | High | armenzg | Fixed | 15 Feb | |
| Write the steps for Mac | Med | cworth #cairo | Done | 29 Feb | Sess14-Buildbot on Cairo | |
| Write the steps for Windows | Med | 7 Mar | ||||
| Write cairobuild.py file | This will centralize and group steps together as in mozbuild.py | Med | 7 Mar | |||
| Run the "performance" steps | Med | |||||
| Find out how to use PKG_CONFIG_PATH | * PKG_CONFIG_PATH=(the --prefix value)+"/lib/pkgconfig"(where the .pc file is) | Med | Fixed | Feb 29 | ||
| Build upon source changes in the GIT repository | Med | |||||
| Try to use the GIT source class that buildbot has | Med | |||||
| Package results and make them available | Pass the results of "make test" and "make html" to the master and allow to download them | Med | ||||
| Write a CSS file for the waterfall view | Med | |||||
| Email notifications? IRC notifications? | Med |
Problems
- A lot of problems when trying to build on MacOS are mentioned here: Sess14-Buildbot on Cairo
-
The first time the command GIT CLONE works because there is nothing before that execution but the second run should be an update instead of a checkout. What could be the proper GIT command to have as the step?
I have decided to remove the checked out code and checkout the trunk before each build
-
I need to do SUDO MAKE INSTALL, but this requires user's input which breaks the automated concept. What could be the right step?
Used ./configure --prefix=/path/to/somewhere to avoid building somewhere where I require to have sudo privileges
Notes
These notes are for learning purposes and documentation
Feb. 15th release
Where will I put code and screenshots?
- http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/Seneca_Hera_Try_Server_Setup/buildbot-configs/ - Buildbot configs (look for "cairo")
- http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/%7Eazambran/mozilla/cairo/ - Archived files
- http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/%7Eazambran/mozilla/screenshots/ - Screenshots (look for "cairo" in the filenames)
What has been released this week:
- master.cfg - It builds Cairo and runs automated tests on one linux machine
- buildbot-status-cairo.jpg - After build #8 (no tests at this point)
- Buildbot:Cairo-results.tar.gz - After build #11 (tests were run)
Steps to meet requirements
- sudo apt-get install buildbot
- sudo apt-get install git-core //This is to get the version control that cairo uses, it is called GIT
Steps to make it happen
- buildbot create-master ~/cairomaster
- Put the master.cfg to the the created master
- buildbot create-slave ~/cairoslave localhost:9876 cairoslave
- buildbot start ~/cairomaster
- buildbot start ~/cairoslave
- firefox http://localhost:8020 //This is to be able to see the results of the build
Build Cairo manually
- mkdir cairo & cd cairo
- git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/pixman
- git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo
- cd pixman && ./autogen.sh
- ./configure
- make
- make install //I have a problem can I set up buildbot to use SUDO??
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/armen/sandbox/cairo2/pixman/pixman' test -z "/usr/local/lib" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/lib" /bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'libpixman-1.la' '/usr/local/lib/libpixman-1.la' /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libpixman-1.so.0.9.6 /usr/local/lib/libpixman-1.so.0.9.6 /usr/bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/local/lib/libpixman-1.so.0.9.6': Permission denied make[2]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
- sudo make install //I had to use SUDO
- whereis libpixman-1
- cd ../cairo && ./autogen.sh
- ./configure
- make
- make install //the same problem with SUDO
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/armen/sandbox/cairo2/cairo/src' test -z "/usr/local/lib" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/lib" /bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'libcairo.la' '/usr/local/lib/libcairo.la' /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libcairo.so.2.14.0 /usr/local/lib/libcairo.so.2.14.0 /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/libcairo.so.2.14.0': Permission denied
- sudo make install
Running the tests and getting an index.html file with them
- make test //takes long time
- cd test && make html
- firefox index.html