[Buildroot] autobuilder improvements and fixes
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Thu Feb 13 21:19:16 UTC 2014
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
> Hello,
> Two quick informations about the autobuilder tests running on the Free
> Electrons server:
> * I have updated the Buildroot external toolchains. They are now all
> built with Buildroot 2014.02-rc1, which should solve a certain
> number of static linking issues against libstdc++.a. However, the
> SH4 toolchain is still an old one generated by Buildroot 2013.05,
> due to the impossibility of generating a SH4 toolchain since the
> internal toolchain backend rework.
Great!
> * I have found the reason for the various "TIMEOUT" builds that we saw
> from time to time. Then occurred when a (e)glibc toolchain was
> chosen, and when the test script was deciding to do a static library
> build. In this case, the script was detecting that this
> configuration should not be tested (because glibc + static is not
> supported by glibc), but it was doing that in a completely stupid
> way which was making the script regenerate a random selection of
> packages (make randpackageconfig) during 4 hours in a loop, until
> the build was killed. The result was not only that we were having
> these stupid erroneous results, but also that one of the three build
> instances running on the server was consuming 4 hours of CPU time
> for nothing. I have worked around the problem for now, we will see
> if it works correctly within the next hours/days. It is still on my
> todo-list to rewrite the autobuilder script, to fix this kind of
> ugly things :)
Heh, sounds funky ;)
Thanks.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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