Re: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml: Enable native Windows symlink

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 02:02:48PM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 9:38 AM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 9:48 PM Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > From: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
> > > >
> > > > The following error message was seen during the configure:
> > > >
> > > >   "ln: failed to create symbolic link
> > > >   'x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64.exe': No such file or directory"
> > > >
> > > > By default the MSYS environment variable is not defined, so the runtime
> > > > behavior of winsymlinks is: if <target> does not exist, 'ln -s' fails.
> > > > At the configure phase, the qemu-system-x86_64.exe has not been built
> > > > so creation of the symbolic link fails hence the error message.
> > > >
> > > > Set winsymlinks to 'native' whose behavior is most similar to the
> > > > behavior of 'ln -s' on *nix, that is:
> > > >
> > > >   a) if native symlinks are enabled, and whether <target> exists
> > > >      or not, creates <destination> as a native Windows symlink;
> > > >   b) else if native symlinks are not enabled, and whether <target>
> > > >      exists or not, 'ln -s' creates as a Windows shortcut file.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
> > >
> > > I'm still seeing Windows build failures such as:
> > >
> > >   https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu/-/jobs/2765579269
> >
> > I've seen this one before. Looks like this one can be easily reproduced.
> >
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > >   https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu/-/jobs/2765579267
> >
> > This one seems to be a random failure?
> >
> 
> Saw another random failure today in the msys2-32bit build in CI.
> 
> [313/1788] Generating texture-blit-vert.h with a custom command
> (wrapped by meson to capture output)
> FAILED: ui/shader/texture-blit-vert.h
> "C:/GitLab-Runner/builds/lbmeng/qemu/msys64/mingw32/bin/python3.exe"
> "C:/GitLab-Runner/builds/lbmeng/qemu/meson/meson.py" "--internal"
> "exe" "--capture" "ui/shader/texture-blit-vert.h" "--" "perl"
> "C:/GitLab-Runner/builds/lbmeng/qemu/scripts/shaderinclude.pl"
> "../ui/shader/texture-blit.vert"
> [314/1788] Generating texture-blit-flip-vert.h with a custom command
> (wrapped by meson to capture output)
> ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
> make: *** [Makefile:162: run-ninja] Error 1

IMHO we need to just drop the msys jobs from GitLab. They are too
unreliable and causing frequent failed pipelines. 

With regards,
Daniel
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