6.9 Build robot for gnulib

To simplify testing on a wide set of platforms, gnulib is built on many platforms every day and the results are uploaded to:

http://autobuild.josefsson.org/gnulib/

If you wish to help the gnulib development effort with build logs for your favorite platform, you may perform these steps:

1. Create gnulib directory

   On a machine with recent automake, autoconf, m4 installed and with a gnulib git checkout (typically a Linux machine), use

   gnulib-tool --create-megatestdir --with-tests --dir=...
   

   Note: The created directory uses ca. 512 MB on disk.

2. Transfer gnulib directory

   Transfer this directory to a build machine (HP-UX, Cygwin, or whatever). Often it is easier to transfer one file, and this can be achieved by running, inside the directory the following commands:

   ./configure
   make dist
   

   And then transferring the dummy-0.tar.gz file.

3. Build modules

   On the build machine, run ./do-autobuild (or "nohup ./do-autobuild"). It creates a directory logs/ with a log file for each module.

4. Submit build logs

   Submit each log file to Simon’s site, either through a

   mail `echo gnulib__at__autobuild.josefsson.org | sed -e s/__at__/@/`
   

   or through netcat

   autobuild-submit logs/*