Devops

CMake 101 (Part 1)

Thu 19 March 2020 by Tsvi Mostovicz / Devops

Following the tutorials

Obviously, the first thing to do is to follow the existing tutorials. Unfortunately, most of them will show you how to compile some code into a single executable.

What I need is something that will run a specific custom command. I don't use the GCC toolchain. These …

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Revamping our build scripts

Wed 18 March 2020 by Tsvi Mostovicz / Devops

A short history

After a year or so at my job, I decided to delve a bit deeper into the build scripts we were using. They were mostly an emalgamation of some tcsh and perl. Being horrified at the cruft that has crept into the system, I went and rewrote …

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No more emails are being sent on compilation errors from the automation server

Thu 06 December 2018 by Tsvi Mostovicz / Devops

Context

We have an old and arcane VCS at work. To get it to work with Jenkins, I created a job that polls the VCS once an hour and creates commits in a locel Git repo if any changes are found. The git commits hold in their description all of …

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