[p4] Build automation question

[David Weintraub]

Sounds like a job for CruiseControl! There are limits to
CruiseControl. For example, it really likes ant. If I use makefiles
and a shell script to run a build, I will write a build.xml file as a
wrapper to fire off the shell script. Otherwise, CruiseControl won't
send me certain information (like the build number).

You can fire off a build with CruiseControl by pressing the "Build"
button, or you can have it do a continuous build process. You really
cannot give it a changelist number and say "build this". But in order
to use CruiseControl, you have to have some sort of build script
anyway (even if its a build.xml ant file). So, it is possible to write
your build script to take a changelist number as a parameter and run
your build script manually if you want to build a specific changelist.

The biggest problem I have with CruiseControl is documentation.

On 1/16/07, Jay Renbaum <Jay.Renbaum at hillcrestlabs.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions for a build automation tool that works well
> with Perforce?
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> I've been looking at Parabuild, Pulse and Quickbuild, but they are all
> limited in their functions. I would like to find a tool that can perform
> continuous builds for us, but is also capable of accepting changelist
> inputs when kicking off a build.
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> Additionally, we build out of 2 depots that reside under a single
> Perforce server. This means that we have one changelist counter that
> keeps growing across all depots. We actually create workspaces on the
> fly. My current homebrew build script accepts different branch names for
> the 2 components and 2 different changelists as one component may be at
> a different point in development than the other. Is anyone aware of a
> build tool that allows for different branches and/or changelists?
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> Thanks,
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> Jay Renbaum
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