From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 10:45:32 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Analysis of build results for 2017-10-30 In-Reply-To: References: <20171031070013.AD75D207B2@mail.free-electrons.com> <20171031230519.3feb2619@windsurf> Message-ID: <20171101104532.43dcd164@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:37:28 -0500, Matthew Weber wrote: > > This is happening only on ARC. Why? Matt Weber proposed a patch, > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/832397/, but I am not terribly > > convinced because it doesn't explain why this problem happens only on > > ARC, and why it appeared suddenly. > > I kicked off a test build reverting the following commit. We'll see > in the morning if it changed the behavior or the pass/fail. (ie bump > from GCC 6.x to 7.x) > 5bd21f991f3 Evgeniy Didin 2017-09-21 21:28:28 OK, we'll see the result. > One interesting thing to notes is the test-pkg is using a external ARC > GCC6 uclibc toolchain and the failing builds are all internal > toolchain and GCC 7. Yes. But we have other toolchains tested by test-pkg that use gcc 7.x, so I'm surprised the problem doesn't pop up on other architectures. > >> arc | host-uboot-tools-2017.07 | NOK | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/9567703c95823be10400c0a330c3997a4cd6a62c | ORPH > >> arm | host-uboot-tools-2017.07 | NOK | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/e3ee47e30a01e68a80fcbef3178f8eb051fe509f | ORPH > >> sh4 | host-uboot-tools-2017.07 | NOK | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/7d60ebf31fd9df7a5fef7e7723859c32d7972f5b | ORPH > > > > The libfdt/python issue. Matt Weber has proposed a patch to fix it: > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/827287/, however I have some > > questions/concerns about it. > > Should we just wait for the November uboot release that resolves the > underlying design issue upstream? No, because we want to fix this problem before the next Buildroot release in November. Unrelated note: when you're replying to only a few parts of a lengthy e-mail, it's good practice to delete the parts of the e-mail that are not relevant. See what I did here :) Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com