Re: Failure trying to setup build robot for gnulib on Fedora/22.

[Bruno Haible]

Hi John,

> [master] $ /bin/bash /tmp/jenkins6710415235745568817.sh
> ./gnulib-tool --create-megatestdir --with-tests \
>   --dir=/home/jeeves/mirrors/gnu/gnulib/gnulib
> Module list with included dependencies (indented):
>    _Exit
>      _Exit-tests
> ...
> 3 hours, 38 minutes later

Yes, --create-megatestdir is slow and produces a huge number
of configure scripts. For interactive use, everyone prefers --create-testdir
- but you explicitly cite doc/build-automation.texi.

> It states with the machine has GNU development tools on it is needed.
> I could not find exactly what tools that it needed.
> 
> The obvious ones from web searches were:
> gcc, git, make, autoconf, automake, libtool.
> 
> After 1 hour 54 minutes, I discovered it needed bison.
> 
> Cleaning the work directory and re-running, it took 2 hours and 6 
> minutes to discover it needed "autopoint" from gettext-devel package.
> 
> Cleaning the work directory and re-running, it took 2 hours and 22 
> minutes to discover it needs "gperf" installed.

These requirements are listed in the file DEPENDENCIES.

> Can the web page be updated to give a complete list of tools needed?

Feel free to submit a patch to doc/build-automation.texi that references
DEPENDENCIES ...

> Can the web page be updated to give an estimate of how long each step 
> that takes more than a few minutes on at least one type of CPU / memory 
> combination?

On Cygwin the times would be very different than on Linux.

Bruno