howto: set up a cyrus development environment

[ellie timoney]

> However, when running the tests with "./testrunner.pl -f pretty -j 8", I
> get 1 failure and 182 errors in 252 tests. That seems odd. I see no
> specific error messages in syslog or elsewhere, so I'm thinking I must
> be missing something. Have any of you experienced this ?

Is that against the cyrus master branch?  Do you get less errors with
the cyrus-imapd-2.5 branch?

I experienced a lot (don't recall numbers offhand, sorry) of errors
against master, and a lot (but fewer) against cyrus-imapd-2.5, when
running Cassandane on my Debian 8.0 VM, which is probably similar to
recent Ubuntu.  But all tests are fine for me on both branches on Debian
7.8.  So I don't yet know if something has changed in recent
Debian/Ubuntu to cause this, or if I've just missed a step in the VM
setup (and consequently the instructions).

On Sat, May 2, 2015, at 08:20 AM, Conrad Kleinespel wrote:
> Hello guys and girls,
> 
> Ellie, thanks a lot for the instructions. Building Cyrus and Cassandane
> worked just fine on Ubuntu 15.10 :-)
> 
> However, when running the tests with "./testrunner.pl -f pretty -j 8", I
> get 1 failure and 182 errors in 252 tests. That seems odd. I see no
> specific error messages in syslog or elsewhere, so I'm thinking I must
> be missing something. Have any of you experienced this ?
> 
> Installing arcanist on Ubuntu was apparently as easy as "sudo apt-get
> install arcanist". I'll see about actually using it together with
> Phabricator when I make my first commit.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Conrad Kleinespel
> conradk at conradk.com