Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] checkAPIs being run every incremental build on Windows

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Meier wrote:
> Having checkAPIs run in various directories during every Windows 
> incremental build (even when there are no file changes)
> is a drag....  :)
> 
> Could we maybe have checkAPIs default to not being run (via an 
> environment variable or whatever) and then set the buildbot builds
> to run checkAPIs ?
>
> In the same way that we use "fail on warning" for C compiles, it seems 
> to me that this should be sufficient enforcement as long as a build with 
> checkAPIs enabled causes  a 'fail' if checkAPIs reports a problem.

I've added an 'nmake -f makefile.nmake checkapi' step to the Windows buildbot,
which halts on failure. Is this sufficient for the Buildbot side of things?