Re: release process analysis

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Paul,

Am 29.09.2020 um 22:56 schrieb Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>:
> On 9/29/20 12:00 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> This is not correct: there is continous integration on Solaris
>> for quite some time now
> 
> Yes, and I used that with this patch. Unfortunately the failure mode occurs 
> only when libsigsegv is installed 3rd-party on Solaris, which was not the 
> situation on the continuous-integration platform.

But libsigsegv is installed on both machines where the CI on Solaris runs.
However, it only seems to show up on i386 and not Sparc (at least on my
installations), but it was visible starting 24th September:
  https://buildfarm.opencsw.org/buildbot/builders/ggrep-solaris10-i386

So the CI build failed but nobody noticed. And indeed when I look at the
mailing list archive for September
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grep-devel/2020-09/threads.html
I only see messages from the buildbot on Sparc and not i386! When reviewing
the buildbot configuration I noticed a typo in the configuration that
associates email notifications with builders which preventer i386 from
working. I guess I am to blame for this…

For next time I corrected the notification so both platforms will be
reported now. Also it is probably worthwhile to check why only the
i386 installation shows the error but not the sparc builder.


Best regards

  — Dago

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