build-automation

In our build , we use to delete our view and create new view before build. It was working without any issue in base clearcase. But in UCM we face issues while check-out and check-in due to activity name has to be assigned every time. Is it a good practice to create new activity whenever i build? [ But number of activities will be soon increased to enormous] Is there any easy way to setup default activity automatically in UCM? Has any body automated this in their build process? If so can you share link or something useful resource.. Use cleartool setact to set your activity. setact/ivity [ –c

I want to build a Maven project using Jenkins. However, the project only must be built if a certain file in the SVN repository has changed (and contains a special key) So my plan is to create a job with two build steps: the first step executes a shell or python script that checks that "condition". the second step is the actual Maven build The second step only must be invoked if the condition check in step 1 returned "true". Is there a possibility to do so? Well, I guess I could return an exit code 1 in the first script if the condition is not met. This will stop the build at once, but the job

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I'm trying to create a build script for my current project, which includes an Excel Add-in. The Add-in contains a VBProject with a file modGlobal with a variable version_Number. This number needs to be changed for every build. The exact steps: Open XLA document with Excel. Switch to VBEditor mode. (Alt+F11) Open VBProject, entering a password. Open modGlobal file. Change variable's default value to the current date. Close & save the project. I'm at a loss for how to automate the process. The best I can come up with is an excel macro or Auto-IT script. I could also write a custom MSBuild task,

I'm using CMake as a build system for my code, which involves CUDA. I was thinking of automating the task of deciding which compute_XX and arch_XX I need to to pass to my nvcc in order to compile for the GPU(s) on my current machine. Is there a way to do this: With the NVIDIA GPU deployment kit? Without the NVIDIA GPU deployment kit? Does CMake's FindCUDA help you in determining the values for these switches? My strategy has been to compile and run a bash script that probes the card and returns the gencode for cmake. Inspiration came from University of Chicago's SLURM . To handle errors or

In my project I have a "schema" file and utility that I wrote to generate a header file. I'm using cmake and out of source build to build the application. Currently I have to regenerate the header file by hand then build the application. Then I came up with this CMakeLists.txt statements, but they generate the header in the build directory instead of in the source directory. configure_file( generator.pl generator COPYONLY ) configure_file( schema.txt.in schema.txt COPYONLY ) add_custom_command( OUTPUT generated.h COMMAND ./generator schema.txt generated.h DEPENDS mib_schema.txt.in generator.pl

I often encounter distributions of Java applications or libraries which use Maven as their build tool. Some of them, sadly, don't provide standalone (or redistributable) jars. Is it possible to build Maven-based applications in such a way, that the build result contains all dependencies and can be redistributed to work out-of-the box? I tried to build Jackrabbit's OCM module. For some very "intelligent" reasons there is no downloadable standalone version. So I built Jackrabbit with Maven (the source package of Jackrabbit includes OCM), and got the same jar as found in the apache repository .

I have a script that will convert a text file into a resource file, so that I can have multiple language support by having text files for different languages converted into different resources. Once I run the script to get the resx file, I then have to run a custom build tool (as described here: Link to Code Project ) in order to create the Designer.cs files to use the new files. In keeping with the philosophy that I should be able to build the entire project with a single button click, how can I remove the step where I have to explicitly call the custom build tool in order to make the