[Buildbot-devel] Problem Getting BuildBot to Build Things

[James Kelly]

Hi all,

I have to imagine this is going to be something incredibly dumb, but I'm
having a problem to get buildbot to, uh, build.  :)  As I'm sure will become
obvious, this is my first buildbot setup.

I set up a buildmaster (via easy_install) on a OS X 10.4 machine, and it has
a slave on the same machine.  Here is the version information:

Version Information
    * Buildbot: 0.7.9
    * Twisted: 8.1.0
    * Python: 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 22 2008, 07:57:53) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple
Computer, Inc. build 5363)]
    * Buildmaster platform: darwin

I set it up to run both the master and slave through launchd, that's all
working great, the slave connects to the master and I can see status updates
and such.  The problem is, nothing ever happens.  I commit changes to our
perforce server, and the buildmaster doesn't seem to care.  I originally had
some problems hooking up the P4Source (P4PASSWD unset, resolved that), but
it definitely is hooked up because it said "P4Poller: starting at change
149" in the log (149 being the last changelist number on the perforce
server).  Yet the waterfall display still says idle.

Some relevant configuration lines:

c['slaves'] = [BuildSlave('macinstall','XXXXXXX', max_builds=2)]

s = P4Source(p4bin='/usr/local/bin/p4',
p4base='//depot/Projects/Installer/Stable/',pollinterval=30,
p4port='test.nemetschek.net:1666',p4user='jkelly',p4passwd='XXXXXXXXXXX')

c['schedulers'].append(Scheduler(name="Installer", branch=None,
                                 treeStableTimer=30,
                                 builderNames=["Installer Framework"]))

zBuildFactory = factory.BuildFactory()
zBuildFactory.addStep(P4(p4base='//depot/Projects/Installer/Stable',
                        p4port='test.nemetschek.net:1666',
                        p4user='jkelly',
                        p4passwd='XXXXXXXXXXX'))

zBuildFactory.addStep(Compile(command=['python', './setup.py',
WithProperties('%s', 'revision'), 'build', 'bdist-egg']))
zBuildFactory.addStep(FileUpload(slavesrc=WithProperties('dist/Installer-0.1
.%s-py2.5.egg', 'revision'),
masterdest='/Library/WebServer/Documents/dist'))

installer = {'name': "Installer Framework",
              'slavename':"macinstall",
              'builddir':"macbuilds",
              'factory':zBuildFactory,
              }

c['builders'] = [installer]




The logs no show errors, it just kinda sits there.  I tried to use the debug
console to force a build, but got an error that there was no module named
gobject.  I gave up trying to get that dependency met after going down a
rabbit hole reminiscent of RPM dependencies circa RedHat 9.  :)  Incidently,
this seems to be a reproduceable problem on all machines I have buildbot
installed on (OS X 10.4, 10.5, and Windows XP), I could file a bug if this
is an unknown issue.

Anyway, any ideas?

Thanks,
Jim