[Buildroot] Analysis of build results for 2017-08-14

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:48:10 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > So if it was just the Sourcery toolchain being unable to build
> > ruby-2.4.1, I think we would have a lot more failures than that. So it
> > might be a toolchain issue, but that occurs under very specific
> > conditions.  
> 
>  ruby has a bunch of optional dependencies, so yes indeed it only occurs for
> some exotic combination of these dependencies.
> 
>  So I checked the source of the Sourcery toolchain and it does NOT have the
> patch of bug 20006 applied, even though it was released in binutils 2.26.1, 4
> months before the Sourcery release...
> 
>  So, we could try to find out which exact combination of packages triggers this
> issue, but is that worth it for something that happens twice in five months...

True, but it's annoying to have those sporadic failures once in a
while :-/

Thomas
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