new automation stuff

[Elliot Lee]

On Mon, 2 May 2005, seth vidal wrote:

>  I worked a fair bit on the build system automation this weekend. It's
> not complete but it's better than it was:
>  http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/buildsys/

Rock on!

> The code is not the most heinous thing in the world but there is a lot
> of room for configuration to be extracted from the code (hah) and
> improvement.
> 
> Known Bugs:
> I'm having trouble getting the log output back across the xmlrpc
> connection. I think it has something to do with some goofball characters
> in the log output that the handler is retching at. That'll get sorted
> soon enough.

binhex the log messages before sending them?

-- Elliot