[Buildroot] [autobuild.buildroot.net] Build results for 2013-05-13

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Tue, 14 May 2013 09:39:47 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> >  Thomas> Build statistics for 2013-05-13
> >  Thomas> ===============================
> > 
> >  Thomas>         success : 89 
> >  Thomas>        failures : 35 
> >  Thomas>        timeouts : 35 
> >  Thomas>           TOTAL : 124
> > 
> > What are the timeouts?
> 
> On my autobuilder, I run the Buildroot build within a "timeout" command
> that errors out when the build takes more than 2 hours.
> 
> Originally, I introduced this because once particular PowerPC external
> toolchain had a 'ld' bug that got triggered on some packages, and was
> causing 'ld' to enter an infinite loop, which was basically halting the
> autobuilder. So this timeout thing was introduced, and I've kept it
> until now.
> 
> I'm rather surprised by the number of timeouts for yesterday, I'll need
> to investigate. They also don't seem to show up on the web interface. I
> suspect something might be wrong in just the e-mail generation script,
> I'll have a look into that.

I was right: there was a copy/paste mistake in the mail script, and it
was showing the number of failures as the number of timeouts. This is
now fixed by
http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot-test/commit/?id=900e908329ed2222f540c4f106f1430e6a7c0ffd.


> However, please beware that the Git commit id from the build results
> coming from my autobuilders are wrong since about a day or so. I was
> using the same Git clone for the two builds, each doing a git pull on
> its own at the start of a build. And I think I finally hit the case
> where the two git pull were done in parallel: the Git repository
> contained some spurious merge commits over the history of the last day.
> I've halted my autobuilders, and I'll be fixing the script to have one
> Git clone for each instance of the build.

This is also fixed now.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
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