Introduction

There is a number of things that you need to do to add a new build slave. Slightly fuller/alternative instructions are available from AddNewBuildBotMacOSX.

You will need the following prerequisites:

• a working build environment for OpenOffice.org. Please make sure that you have already managed to built OpenOffice.org on the machine that you want to put the bot on. See http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/ for build instructions.
• python 2.4 or later (Use python -V to get the python version number)
• twisted 2.4 or later (most OSs provide this as package, e.g. python-twisted or SUNWpython-twisted)
• perl (and the following modules: LWP::Simple, File::Copy::Recursive, Config::Auto which can be installed from CPAN)

sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
install LWP::Simple
install File::Copy::Recursive
install Config::Auto
exit

• bash
• subversion (for the buildbot scripts and DEV300 codeline)
• cvs (for OpenOffice.org 3.0 source)

Details

1. Grab a copy of Buildbot 0.7.9
2. Unpack the source
3. Build the buildbot the buildbot manual
4. Create the build-slave

buildbot create-slave BASEDIR termite.go-oo.org:9999 SLAVENAME PASSWORD

This will create a Build Slave Basedir and the important buildbot.tac file.

1. Grab the scripts from svn directly in to the BASEDIR

svn checkout http://ootermite.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/buildbot/buildslave/scripts/ BASEDIR

2. Edit the info/admin and info/host files to contain information about yourself/host
3. Customise the scripts for your platform
4. Create a build_copy dir (used by buildprep) with things you wish to be copied into the source tree after checkout and before configure (such as moz)
5. Email Christian Lins <christian.lins@sun.com> (or mikeleib or shaunmcdonald) the name and password to add your bot to the master
6. Start your bot

buildbot start BASEDIR

7. It should show up as online at http://termite.go-oo.org/ and you should be able to manually submit builds to it.