[Buildbot-devel] Automatically Creating builddir?

[Roy S. Rapoport]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 12:05:24PM -0700, Grig Gheorghiu wrote:
> You only have to manually create the builddir if you don't have the source
> code checkout/update as your first step in your builder. If you do have this
> step, the slave will do it for you. I do have situations where I don't run
> that step, so I have to manually create builddir, and then a directory
> called build under builddir.

Ah, this makes sense.  For us, we don't use our VC system directly from
buildbot (we have a meta VC layer between buildbot and the VC).  I ended up
patching buildbot's source to auto-create the directory if necessary.  

-roy