Tweaks to the 'nightly' script and docs.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9349

diff --git a/nightly/README.txt b/nightly/README.txt
index d1d8eacf8a2a9ffb57a892aca0456e007f26543c..6b4d79d6bc7f8446b5bb4f1121ff2843d95535d2 100644 (file)
--- a/nightly/README.txt
+++ b/nightly/README.txt
@@ -27,14 +27,16 @@ and supply the following two config files:
     shell script to set the remote working directory such that it matches the
     local current directory ($PWD).
   ABT_RUN_REGTEST: if provided, it must be the name of an argumentless shell
-    function (also specified in the tag.conf file) it's an argumentless bash
-    function that will be used to run the tests.  If not specified, the usual
-    "perl tests/vg_regtest --all" will be used.
+    function (also specified in the tag.conf file) that will be used to run
+    the tests.  If not specified, the usual "perl tests/vg_regtest --all"
+    will be used.
   ABT_JOBS: allows parallel builds -- it's passed as the argument to "make
     -j" when building Valgrind and the tests.  The default is 1.
+    [XXX: the .NOTPARALLEL that currently resides in Makefile.all.am foils
+     this!]
 
 - conf/<tag>.sendmail:  this should be a script that sends an email to the
-  desired recipient (eg. the valgrind-developers list).  It must take two
+  desired recipient (eg. the valgrind-developers list).  It takes three
   command line arguments.  The first is the email subject line, the second
   is the name of the file containing the email's body (showing the tests
   that failed, and the difference between now and 24 hours ago), the third

diff --git a/nightly/bin/nightly b/nightly/bin/nightly
index e8a63de2a7f8349a2d36d28085dd48863de28a79..2f8a60798ab9f5e208bebbdcd3de363e0791cf55 100755 (executable)
--- a/nightly/bin/nightly
+++ b/nightly/bin/nightly
@@ -192,4 +192,4 @@ fi
 conf/$ABT_MACHINE.sendmail \
    "$changed_str$ABT_START nightly build ($ABT_MACHINE, $ABT_DETAILS)" \
    final \
-   diffs
+   diffs > sendmail.log 2>&1