[Buildroot] xfsprogs failing to build on your autobuilder

Matthew Weber matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com
Wed May 9 13:02:39 UTC 2018


All,

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 4:13 AM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 10:53:14AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> Hello Matt,
>>
>> Since yesterday, xfsprogs has started failing to build, but it seems to
>> happen only your autobuilder (4 times so far):
>>
>>   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/?reason=xfsprogs-4.15.1
>>
>> xfsprogs hadn't failed to build since March 24th, and it suddenly
>> started failing to build again (but with a different error) since
>> yesterday, just on your autobuilder.
>>
>> It fails with:
>>
>> make[3]: *** No rule to make target `-lrt', needed by `xfs_scrub'.  Stop.
>>
>> I don't immediately in the commits from the last few days what could
>> cause this. It fails on different architectures, with internal and
>> external toolchains, with uclibc and glibc. Seems weird.
>>
>> Could you see if you can reproduce locally, and understand what's going
>> on ?
>
> I think that the xfsprogs Makefile used check the host librt for the -lrt
> dependency. This issue is a similar to the -lunistring dependency that
> Buildroot commit a81601589 removed. Upstream developer Darrick J. Wong
> indicated[1] that all this code is going to be removed in a future release. So
> I think that bumping to v4.16.1 would fix the issue, but I didn't check that
> yet.
>
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10296957/
>

It does make sense why it just started as I just brought this U16.04
autobuilder back online on 5/8.

I'll start a test of a bump to 4.16.1 (autobr failure and test-pkg).
Baruch, shall I send a patch if it looks to resolve this issue or did
you want to as you originated the comment?

Matt


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