Installing Buildbot

BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes.

Here is my environment.

$ uname -a
Linux app.example.com 2.6.18-53.el5 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 02:14:55 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, May 24 2008, 13:57:05)

Here is what I did to get it installed successfully.

CentOS

$ yum install python-devel
$ yum install zope

Ubuntu

$ apt-get install python-dev
$ apt-get install python-zopeinterface
$ cd /tmp
# installation of Twisted
$ wget http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/8.1/Twisted-8.1.0.tar.bz2
$ bunzip2 Twisted-8.1.0.tar.bz2
$ tar xvf Twisted-8.1.0.tar
$ cd Twisted-8.1.0
$ sudo python setup.py install
# installation of BuildBot
$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/buildbot/buildbot-0.7.8.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz buildbot-0.7.8.tar.gz
$ cd buildbot-0.7.8
$ sudo python setup.py install


And a confirmation.
$ buildbot --version
Buildbot version: 0.7.8
Twisted version: 8.1.0

You will notice a few dependencies. I found these out from the following errors.

Error causing needing python-devel

$ python setup.py install
....
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtun
e=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.4 -c conftest.c -o conftest.o
building 'twisted.runner.portmap' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.4
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.4/twisted
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.4/twisted/runner
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtun
e=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.4 -c twisted/runner/portmap.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.4/twisted/runner/portmap.o
twisted/runner/portmap.c:10:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
twisted/runner/portmap.c:14: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
twisted/runner/portmap.c:31: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
twisted/runner/portmap.c:45: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘PortmapMethods’

Error causing zope to be installed

$ buildbot start /home/buildbot/master/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/buildbot", line 4, in ?
    runner.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/buildbot/scripts/runner.py", line 939, in run
    start(so)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/buildbot/scripts/startup.py", line 85, in start
    rc = Follower().follow()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/buildbot/scripts/startup.py", line 6, in follow
    from twisted.internet import reactor
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/twisted/internet/reactor.py", line 11, in ?
    from twisted.internet import selectreactor
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/twisted/internet/selectreactor.py", line 17, in ?
    from zope.interface import implements
ImportError: No module named zope.interface

Installation was the easy part, configuration a little more complex.

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