[LLVMdev] Why buildbot SVN checkouts fail

[Bill Wendling]

On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Török Edwin wrote:

>>
>> Ah! This is the one that's messing up. Could someone take a look at
>> this and see why it's failing? It doesn't even seem to be getting to
>> the "svn" checkout.
>>
>
> [sorry I was not subscribed to llvm-testresults, and noticed this  
> only now]
>
> This is a buildbot bug apparently, see
> http://buildbot.net/trac/ticket/284 and http://buildbot.net/trac/ticket/255 
> .
>
> You can fix this on the buildbot *slave* by editing your buildbot.tac
> file, and adding this line:
> usepty = 0
>
> I had the same problem for a buildbot I run for another project, and
> after adding that line to the clients I never encountered
> the problem again.
> A nice side-effect of adding that line is that now the buildslave's
> stdio logs have stderr lines in red.
>
Excellent! I added the lines. Thank you for the suggestion. :-)

-bw