Re: Bootstrapping Emacs-23.0.60-trunk newly broken (GNU/Linux, Cygwin)

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Romain Francoise <address@hidden> wrote:

>  While that is certainly true, it's also a waste of time for our
>  users to have to report bugs that could be avoided, and a waste of
>  our own time because we have to handle the reports.
>
>  For the last few months I've been running a buildbot for the trunk
>  and the 22 branch (and before the merge, for the unicode branch), it
>  does a clean build every night (on GNU/Linux only) and usually
>  catches bootstrap failures.  See <URL:http://build.orebokech.com/>.

Having an automatic method of detecting bootstrap failures (and
reporting to the committer(s)) would be good IMHO. Still, that does
not change the previous point: those building from the trunk should
know to expect trouble (and not just from building/bootstrapping)
every now and then.

 Juanma