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Hudson can be used to perform the typical build server work, such as doing continuous/official/nightly builds, run tests, or perform some repetitive batch tasks. This is called "free-style software project" in Hudson. Setting up the projectGo to Hudson top page, select "New Job", then choose "Build a free-style software project". This job type consists of the following elements:
For more details, click the
Builds for Non-Source Control ProjectsThere is sometimes a need to build a project simply for demonstration purposes or access to a SVN/CVS repository is unavailable. By choosing to configure the project as "None" under "Source Code Management" you will have to:
Hudson Set Environment VariablesWhen a Hudson job executes, it sets some environment variables that you may use in your shell script, batch command, or Ant script1. The following table contains a list of all of these environment variables.
Shell Scripts and Windows Batch CommandsIf you're using a shell script to do your build, you can either put these environment variables directly into your shell scripts, or call them as parameters in your shell script. Below is an example how this can be done: If you are executing a Windows Batch Command, the variables should be referenced using the %VARIABLE_NAME% pattern. For example:
Ant ScriptsIf you're using an Ant script to do your build, you may include environment variables in property settings. Click on the Advanced... button just below where you put the Ant targets you want to build. This will display the Properties box. Below is an example how to use the Properties box to set Ant properties with Hudson Environment variables: As an alternative, you can use the Environmental prefix to pull in all environmental variables as properties right inside your build.xml file. Below is an example how to set the property "label" to include the Project Name and the Build Number: <property environment="env"/> <property name="label" value="${env.JOB_NAME}-${env.BUILD_NUMBER}"/> Configuring automatic buildsBuilds in Hudson can be triggered periodically (on a schedule, specified in configuration), or when source changes in the project have been detected, or they can be automatically triggered by requesting the URL: http://YOURHOST/hudson/job/PROJECTNAME/build This allows you to hook Hudson builds into a variety of setups. For more information (in particular doing this with security enabled), see Remote access API. Builds by changes in Subversion/CVSTo perform builds whenever someone makes a change in the repository, use a post-commit hook (hooks/post-commit for subversion, CVSROOT/loginfo for CVS) to trigger a new build. The hook can use wget/curl to access the build URL shown above, or send email to trigger a build as described below. The trigger may use /polling instead of /build at the end of the URL to make Hudson poll the SCM for changes rather than building immediately. This prevents Hudson from running a build with no relevant changes for commits affecting modules or branches that are unrelated to the job. When using /polling the job must be configured for polling, but the schedule can be empty. Builds by e-mail (sendmail)If you have the root account of your system and you are using sendmail, I found it the easiest to tweak /etc/aliases and add the following entry: hudson-foo: "|/bin/wget -o /dev/null http://YOURHOST/hudson/job/PROJECTNAME/build" and then run "newaliases" command to let sendmail know of the change. Whenever someone sends an e-mail to "hudson-foo@yoursystem", this will trigger a new build. See this for more details about configuring sendmail. Builds by e-mail (qmail)With qmail, you can write /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-hudson as follows: |/bin/wget -o /dev/null http://YOURHOST/hudson/job/PROJECTNAME/build" 1 Note: I believe Maven builds also have access to these variables. Can someone verify this? |
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Comments (20)
Feb 11, 2008
Anonymous says:
I am using the $ Unknown macro: {BUILD_NUMBER} notation in a maven build succes...I am using the $
notation in a maven build successfully.
mvn -Dbuild.id=$
clean install
Feb 27, 2008
Anonymous says:
You can reference Hudson variables as any other property when building with Mave...You can reference Hudson variables as any other property when building with Maven2.
Hudson version 1.184
Feb 27, 2008
Anonymous says:
I am using Hudson 1.44, and I have two versions of JDK installed: 1.4 ...I am using Hudson 1.44, and I have two versions of JDK installed: 1.4 and 1.6. Some projects I need to build in 1.4 and others in 1.6. I created two JDK instances in Hudson in the configuration file (config.xml):
<jdk>
<name>jdk 1.4</name>
<javaHome>C:\j2sdk1.4.2_12</javaHome>
</jdk>
<jdk>
<name>jdk 1.6</name>
<javaHome>C:\jdk1.6.0_04</javaHome>
</jdk>
Inside of my project definition, I select jdk 1.6, and I set the Ant build command in the following way:
-DJAVA_HOME=C:\jdk1.6.0_04 -DPATH=C:\jdk1.6.0_04\bin
Unfortunately, when I build I get the following error:
[javac] C:\hudson\jobs\<project>\workspace\<class>.java:18: cannot access java.lang.Object
[javac] bad class file: C:\jdk1.6.0_04\jre\lib\rt.jar(java/lang/Object.class)
[javac] class file has wrong version 49.0, should be 48.0
[javac] Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath.
[javac] private String text;
[javac] ^
[javac] 1 error
What am I doing wrong?
Mar 28, 2008
Bila Nagirner says:
Hello, Is there a way to customize the BUILD_NUMBER value? (ie. pa...Hello,
Is there a way to customize the BUILD_NUMBER value? (ie. padded 0's)
Also, how can I reset this value to 1 after doing a few test builds?
Thanks,
Bila
Jul 08, 2008
Mark K says:
I was able to do this by updating the number in nextBuildNumber text file inside...I was able to do this by updating the number in nextBuildNumber text file inside of the jobs directory (and all sub-projects), and then bouncing the hudson server.
Jun 27, 2008
Adam says:
Hi, what is the value of BUILD_ID in case of triggering builds by schedul...Hi,
what is the value of BUILD_ID in case of triggering builds by scheduled "Poll SCM" . Because it looks like this variable keeps time of starting "scanning" not the time of build (at least value of BUILD_ID is different than the name of folder with particaular build in build history). Could somebody help me?
Thanks,
Adam
Sep 08, 2008
Amit says:
Hi I am unable to customize my build process number ? I want to set my build n...Hi
I am unable to customize my build process number ?
I want to set my build number as TMT-100 so that when i trigger the build next time it becomes TMT-101,
updating the number in nextBuildNumber is not effective for me.
can anyone help me out of this issue.
Thanks
Anand
Sep 16, 2008
Rex Morrey says:
We are using Hudson to manage a bunch of custom builds and like the quickness af...We are using Hudson to manage a bunch of custom builds and like the quickness afforted by Hudson in configuring a build. One of the issues we are trying to resolve is when there are two different branches involved in producing a build. For example, many of our products use a common library, and occasionally a new branch of that common library is needed, along with the branch of a module (different modules). It appears that Hudson's CVS setup only allows us to identify one branch, when what we need is a second CVS setup to identify an additonal branch.
Does anyone know how to handle such a situation?
Apr 08, 2009
Clement MAHE says:
Hi Does Hudson accept SVN Read-only repository ? Because i have some probl...Hi
Does Hudson accept SVN Read-only repository ? Because i have some problems to configure it.
In fact i can make update in command line but when i try to enter credential, it indicate that kind of message :
"FAILED: svn: OPTIONS of '/svn/projectname/trunk': 403 Forbidden (http://servername:serverport)"
With same repository url and same account of course.
Thanks
Apr 15, 2009
will thai says:
Hi I have a problem when using the 'use update' checkbox. I need to...Hi
I have a problem when using the 'use update' checkbox. I need to have it unchecked to ensure a clean environment.
The project I'm building generates files that is owned by 'root'. So when hudson tries to deletes these files, the build fails.
How do I fix this problem?
thanks.
Jun 12, 2009
fabrice says:
Hi I am trying to develop a post-commit svn hook script in order to run hudson ...Hi
I am trying to develop a post-commit svn hook script in order to run hudson build but it is a hard task !
It would be a good idea to write on the wiki a such script in order to avoid to lose time writting it
Here my incomplete scrip (I have to find a way to get the projectName because REPOS is only ther path of the repo -..., maybe see svnlook changed -r $REV)
REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"
HUDSON_URL="http://tl-em-1:8080/hudson/#PROJECT#/build?token=BUILD_ALMERYS_JOB"
oldIFS=$IFS
IFS="/"
Array=( $REPOS )
IFS=$oldIFS
LastElementIndex=$
-1
ProjectName=$
HUDSON_URL=$( echo "$HUDSON_URL" | sed s/#PROJECT#/$ProjectName/g )
echo $REPOS >> /tmp/commit.txt
/usr/bin/wget -o /dev/null "$HUDSON_URL"
Jan 08, 2010
Jus says:
what is the variable that stores user who initiated build in hudson. This is so ...what is the variable that stores user who initiated build in hudson.
This is so that to the email that is sent from hudson it can have who initiated build in hudson..
Thanks in advance....
Aug 24
Curtis Pendleton says:
Did you ever figure this out? I displayed out all environment variables wh...Did you ever figure this out? I displayed out all environment variables when my job ran and the user name is not in there. Was you able to figure out a different way of getting the user into ant?
Mar 19
Martin Kropp says:
Hi, I've been using Hudson for a while for very simple projects. Now we are wor...Hi,
I've been using Hudson for a while for very simple projects. Now we are working on a larger web-portal project which has a recursive project structure.
In the project root we have a "master" build.xml which calls all concrete subprojects' build.xml files.
e.g.
proj-root/build-app/builld.xml - here is the master build
proj/app/firstapp/build/build.xml - here is build file of the Eclipse project firsapp
How do I have to setup this in Hudson?
Thank's a lot for your help.
Martin
May 18
tim bogatchev says:
Is the console output saved anywhere ? If so, which directory?Is the console output saved anywhere ?
If so, which directory?
May 18
Rex Morrey says:
The logs are stored in the C:/Documents and Settings/.hudson/jobs/<job name&g...The logs are stored in the C:/Documents and Settings/.hudson/jobs/<job name>/builds/<buildtime> folder in a file called simply "log". It is a simple text file.
May 18
Rex Morrey says:
We use Hudson to manage a release schedule of about twice a month. These r...We use Hudson to manage a release schedule of about twice a month. These releases include code held on branches of various CVS modules, and any module can go at any given release. A module can have two or more branches under development at any given time. To manage the build cycle, we create a new Hudson job for each module in a release and include the expected release date of that module in the job name. By creating a new tab for each release date, we can organize our releases and keep them straight.
That said, we want to preserve our build logs for audit purposes even after the build is no longer active. We zip the job directory after a reasonable period of time, and remove it from the .hudson/jobs directory, so that it does not clutter the Hudson screen, and restart the Hudson service. If we need to revisit a past module build, we simply unzip the job back into the jobs directory and restart Hudson.
Jun 03
anna says:
hi, when i was building a software,there would be an error message "java.exe ca...hi,
when i was building a software,there would be an error message "java.exe cannot find ordinal number"
I am very confused with this problem, could anyone else help me and tell me what to do?
Thanks!!
Jun 09
Xav says:
Hi, Is there a way to use a script to trig the build other than these solutions...Hi,
Is there a way to use a script to trig the build other than these solutions:
If i'm missing something, thanks to tell me
Xav
Jun 09
Ajay Puthiyedath says:
Hi, I am trying to build a software project on the CVS,but doesnt seem to be wo...Hi,
I am trying to build a software project on the CVS,but doesnt seem to be working,the same project builds successfully on the local machine but doesnt work on CVS.It gives an error saying "artifacts not found in the specified nexus repo.But when i check the specifies url in the repo,all the artifacts are present .Checked the pom.xml file too,everything looks perfect and hence works fine fine on the local system.Can anyone help me in this regard.What might be the reasons for this?