Re: races in toolstack build

[Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 22.09.20 14:17, Olaf Hering wrote:
> With commit 68a8aa5d72 the build randomly fails. Up to commit c7e3021a71 no 
> errors (like this) are seen. For some reason nothing below tools/ was touched 
> in this range, so the bug may already exist for a while.
>
> attempt on host#1:
> [   81s] ln: failed to create symbolic link 
> '/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/xen-4.15.20200922T102230.68a8aa5d72/non-dbg/tools/libs/ctrl/../../../tools/include/xenctrl_dom.h':
>  File exists
This is very weird, as the link is created via "ln -sf", so an existing
target should not make the command failing.

> [   81s] 
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/xen-4.15.20200922T102230.68a8aa5d72/non-dbg/tools/libs/ctrl/../../../tools/libs/libs.mk:82:
>  recipe for target 
> '/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/xen-4.15.20200922T102230.68a8aa5d72/non-dbg/tools/libs/ctrl/../../../tools/include/xenctrl_compat.h'
>  failed
> [   81s] make[6]: *** 
> [/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/xen-4.15.20200922T102230.68a8aa5d72/non-dbg/tools/libs/ctrl/../../../tools/include/xenctrl_compat.h]
>  Error 1
>
> attempt on host#2:
> [  178s] xenstat_qmp.c:26:10: fatal error: _paths.h: No such file or directory
> [  178s] 
> me/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/xen-4.15.20200922T102230.68a8aa5d72/non-dbg/tools/libs/stat/../../../tools/Rules.mk:153:
>  xenstat_qmp.opic] Error 1
This shouldn't happen, too.

Is this really a normal upstream build, or do you have any additional
patches applied?


Juergen