Re: PG documentation build is wedged

On 11/24/2011 09:16 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> Excerpts from Andrew Dunstan's message of jue nov 24 14:44:18 -0300 2011:
>
>> You need to change the config of this animal to something like:
>>
>> optional_steps => { build_docs => { branches => [ 'HEAD' ],
>> min_hours_since => 0 } },
>>
>>
>> There's no point in not building the docs for HEAD on every build, since
>> "make dist" in the new module will build them if they're not built
>> anyway, but in such a way that they're not so readily usable, whereas
>> this way you can copy them out easily.
>
> FWIW while updating this config I noticed that we have --with-ldap on
> HEAD and 8.2, but not the other branches; and --with-xml only in HEAD
> and 8.3 but not the other branches. I assume this is from the stock
> config file (snippets below).
>
> It seems to me that the BF stuff should have some operator to specify
> "any branch newer than X".

not sure I follow at all...

>
>
> # ldap support is new as of 8.2
> if ($branch eq 'HEAD' || $branch ge 'REL8_2')

this basically means "do only if $branch is exactly HEAD or if $branch
is greater or equals to REL8_2 which is exactly what you are proposing
and what actually makes sense?

Stefan