Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:09:10 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: samba3 error Message-ID: <42709A26.2050008@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <42709726.9020206@FreeBSD.org> References: <1114613430.426fa6b6f1e16@webmail.dock.com.br> <790a9fff05042708553df29617@mail.gmail.com> <42709726.9020206@FreeBSD.org>
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Ade Lovett wrote: > Hijacking a thread for a moment, this is a plea to all of those > automated build error log analyzers out there. > > Please please please grep through the configure.log (if any) for the > "obvious" part of the following snippet: > > [...] > >>checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: newly >>created file is older than distributed files! >>Check your system clock > > [...] > > and act accordingly. > > Bonus points for somehow convincing the controlling terminal (including > serial consoles) to show an animation of someone breaking a grandfather > clock with a REALLY LARGE sledgehammer with an (internationalized, of > course) rendering of "YOUR CLOCK NEEDS YOU!" below it, and then refusing > to send the email/PR/whatever. > > Extra style points for completely taking over the terminal and refusing > to do anything until the contents of the ntpdate man page have been read > and recited back. > > Maintainers of configure-afflicted ports would love you all to pieces as > grindingly similar emails turn up on a monotonously regular basis... > > Hrm. Maybe we(tm) need(tm) a "Common Ports Building Issues" chapter.... > > -aDe A lot of GNOME's FAQs ceased when we introduced the gnomelogalyzer. It runs make(1) and grep(1)s the output for heuristics of common build failures. It wouldn't take much to teach it to analyse non-GNOME stuff too. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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