[darcs-devel] no more cygwin compiler on the Windows buildbot (was: buildbot failure in darcs on zooko allmydata virtual2 Windows-XP i386)

[zooko]

Folks,

For reasons unrelated to darcs I need to remove cygwin gcc from the  
Windows machine.  This should not be a problem for the darcs  
buildslave, of course, darcs doesn't use the locally-installed gcc  
when it is built on Windows -- it uses the gcc that comes bundled  
inside the ghc distribution.  ghc is still installed on that machine.

However, the autoconf scripts test for the existence of gcc when they  
start, and discovering that there is no gcc installed, they  
immediately error out.  You can follow the links in the appended  
buildbot mail to see what I mean.

If someone can patch darcs so that it builds on Windows even when gcc  
is not installed, then that would be great, but if not then I'm  
afraid I'm going to remove the Windows buildslave from the darcs  
buildbot farm for now.

Regards,

Zooko


On Dec 1, 2008, at 13:19 PM, buildbot-darcs at allmydata.org wrote:

> The Buildbot has detected a new failure of zooko allmydata virtual2  
> Windows-XP i386 on darcs.
> Full details are available at:
>  http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/zooko%20allmydata%20virtual2% 
> 20Windows-XP%20i386/builds/282
>
> Buildbot URL: http://buildbot.darcs.net/
>
> Buildslave for this Build: zooko allmydata virtual2
>
> Build Reason: The web-page 'force build' button was pressed by  
> 'zooko': see if it still works now that I uninstalled cygwin gcc  
> from the buildslave
>
> Build Source Stamp: HEAD
> Blamelist:
>
> BUILD FAILED: failed configure compile
>
> sincerely,
>  -The Buildbot