Due to sheer diversity of the environments, build machine is expected to provide strict minimum amount of software (don't forget --no-install-recommends on dpkg-based systems):

To access the build machine:

• SSH server
• Bundled one on Unixes
• FreeSSHd on Windows
• 'build' account with SSH key installed

To transfer files back and forth:

• rsync on Unixes
• 7z on Windows

To be able to install packages and run tests:

• passwordless sudo access for 'build' account
• sudo should not require TTY (remove 'Defaults requiretty' from /etc/sudoers)

To build everything:

• GCC (gcc)
• GNU make (make)
• libc development package (libc-dev, glibc-devel)
• bison (bison)
• flex (flex)
• fakeroot (but not fakeroot 1.12, it is horribly slow!)

To create packages:

• Native packaging manager
• rpm-build on RPM-based systems
• dpkg-dev, debhelper, fakeroot
• WiX on Windows

To build MySQL library (yeah!):

• g++ (gcc-c++, g++)
• ncurses (ncurses-devel, libncurses5-dev)

To build libvirt:

• pkg-config (pkg-config, pkgconfig)

Anything else is either preprocessed on buildbot slave or built and installed during build.

• texinfo
• texlive
• cm-super
• texlive-fonts-extra

Build machines should not contain the following items, which may interfere with build process:

• CFEngine itself, either in source or binary form (build machines are short-living, so this is not a problem)
• Development packages for anything beside libc to avoid picking them up instead of bundled ones accidentally.
• MySQL and PostgreSQL servers, clients and libraries

The following packages should not be installed on build machines as well, to avoid accidentally regenerating files transferred from buildslave:

• automake
• autoconf
• libtool

File install-dependencies and the relevant subdirectories in deps-packaging are the source of this information.

• MinGW-w64 OUTDATED needed for redmine#2932
  • Requires change of buildslaves (autobuild)

Other dependencies (find out why they are needed!)

• autoconf 2.69