Re: Query on meta-java layer openjdk-7-jre build

[Colin Smiley <csmiley@icontrol.com>]

Max, Otavio,

Thank you for the continued work you’re doing on this.


On 1/19/15, 6:41 AM, "Otavio Salvador" <otavio@ossystems.com.br> wrote:

>Hello Max,
>
>On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Max Krummenacher <max.oss.09@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> I made some progress.
>> We seem to be discussing two issues

...

>> 2)
>> qemu runs indefinitely.
>> While hunting the above mentioned bug I found that when using qemu
>> with the sysroot, i.e. using the -L <path-to-sysroot> parameter qemu
>> executes and never returns.
>> On my machine free shows increasingly used RAM but I was to impatient
>> to ever see an OOM kill of qemu but maybe this is also what Colin
>> experiences and probably also why Alex does have issues with the "-L"
>> change.
>
>Awesome analysis; I've been looking for some free time to debug this
>for a while do a HUGE thanks for all your work on this :-)
>
>> An strace qemu .... run shows that qemu runs in circles of recursive
>> symlink in /usr/lib/udev/ptest/.... files.
>> Using the fsl-arm setup with poky enables ptest. When udev has been
>> compiled in this setup those testfiles have been staged and qemu
>> chokes on them..
>> 
>>http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2014-September/
>>097098.html
>>
>> a) One way to go would be to fix udev in oe-core, e.g.
>> index 0f8e9b6..a93b58d 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/add-install-ptest.patch
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/add-install-ptest.patch
>> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Upstream-Status: Pending
>>  +    sed -i -e 's|^Makefile:|_Makefile:|' $(DESTDIR)/Makefile
>>  +    $(MKDIR_P) $(DESTDIR)/test
>>  +    (cd $(top_srcdir) && install $(TESTS) $(DESTDIR)/test)
>> -+    tar -C $(DESTDIR)/test/ -xJf $(top_srcdir)/test/sys.tar.xz
>> ++    cp  $(top_srcdir)/test/sys.tar.xz $(DESTDIR)/test/
>>  --- a/test/udev-test.pl    2012-03-18 16:43:36.000000000 +0100
>>  +++ b/test/udev-test.pl    2013-02-18 10:31:29.706357321 +0100
>>  @@ -1459,11 +1459,13 @@
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/run-ptest
>> b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/run-ptest
>> index c6961ce..0e39806 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/run-ptest
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/run-ptest
>> @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
>>  #!/bin/sh
>>
>> +tar -C test/ -xJf test/sys.tar.xz
>>  make -k check-TESTS
>> +make test-sys-distclean
>> --
>> 1.8.4.5
>
>It'd be great if you could prepare a patch to address this in OE-Core;
>once it proves stable we can ask for it to be backported for Dizzy.


If this is what is causing the meta-java qemu problems, wouldn’t this have
to be ported back to daisy as well? Daisy is the latest branch meta-java
says it supports (it’s the one I’ve been using, anyway).


Colin