[Buildbot-devel] retry in class ShellCommand

[Amber Yust]

Perhaps it would be simpler to do this outside of Buildbot? Say, write a
wrapper script for your invocation of 'make' that retries it X times, and
then have your ShellCommands call the wrapper?

~Amber

2011/2/21 Jean-Michel Beuken <jean-michel.beuken at uclouvain.be>

> Hi,
>
> Before to start coding ( 0.7.12 on master, 0.8.2 on slave ),
> what is the best way to implement the retry parameter ( like in the class
> Source() ) in "class ShellCommand()" ?
>
> Do I have to create a function like  "maybeDoVCFallback(self, rc)"  in  a
> sub-class of  "class SlaveShellCommand())"  ?
>
> my problem :
> - I have a bot on Window$ 7/64bits  with cygwin 1.7.7.1
> - buildslave daemon is started as a service under cygwin
> - I use cygwin environment for   " autoconf, configure, make and make tests
>  "
>    but I compile with "x86-64-w64-mingw32-toolchain"  then the code is
> "Windows 64 bits native"
> - at each steps, there is 80% of luck (:-\ ) that the build stops with :
>  "fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"  ( usually in compile step... )
> - with a lot of patience and many attemps, there are some builds were till
> the end and all tests succeed :-)
>    (http://www.abinit.org:8010/builders/woopy_gcc45/builds/23)
> - no easy working solutions/workarounds on web ( but everybody agrees to
> say that it is a problem a compatibility between Window$ and cygwin =-O )
>
> then, the only solution is to restart the step when it's failed with the
> error "fork: Resource temporarily unavailable" ... ( how many times :'( ...)
>
> thank you for your advices,
>
> regards
>
> jmb
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