[Buildroot] [autobuild.buildroot.net] Your build results for 2017-01-18

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

Hello,

On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:38:18 +1100, Sam Bobroff wrote:

> > This is the list of Buildroot build failures that occured on
> > 2017-01-18, and for which you are a registered architecture developer
> > or package developer. Please help us improving the quality of
> > Buildroot by investigating those build failures and sending patches to
> > fix them. Thanks!
> > 
> > Build failures related to your architectures:  
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >    powerpc64 |                  openocd-0.9.0 | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/0640114028b1e633cefc682e8d6a8283a3a39019  
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> I've had a look at the openocd failure, above, and while it's simple and
> I have a patch for it, there might be something odd going on so I
> thought I should ask you about it first.
> 
> The failure is in the install stage, caused by the documentation being
> regenerated from the .texi input, which fails. It's easy to fix by
> tweaking the Makefile (actualy Makefile.in) as has been done on many
> other packages... however, what I'm curious about is why the error is
> showing up in the autobuilder in the first place.
> 
> The file modification times in the package's archive seem to be correct:
> $ ls openocd-0.9.0.orig/doc/openocd.{info,texi}
> -rw-r--r-- 1 xxxx xxxx   3,542 2015-05-18 07:13:55.000000000 +1000
> openocd-0.9.0.orig/doc/openocd.info
> -rw-r--r-- 1 xxxx xxxx 354,589 2015-05-18 07:04:07.000000000 +1000
> openocd-0.9.0.orig/doc/openocd.texi
> 
> (And I can't replicate the autobuilder failure unless I touch the .texi
> file.)
> 
> Is something you've seen before?  Could something on the autobuilder be
> touching a file or otherwise confusing the timestamp?
> 
> What I don't understand is how this particular file causes a
> re-generation yet other files don't (e.g. Makefile.am would cause
> regeneration of Makefile.in but that doesn't happen).
> 
> Any ideas? Just send the patch?

I don't really have a good idea. I'm adding the Buildroot mailing list
in Cc in case other folks have more ideas.

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com