Re: [PATCH] libtool: Add missing DEPENDS on libtool-cross

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 12:39 +0000, Maupin, Chase wrote:
> I was able to reproduce this consistently on my build server which has
> 24 cores running at 3.5 GHz.  I was using:
> 
> BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "24"
> 
> And
> 
> PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 24"
> 
> I can try a build reducing the number of threads and see if the issue
> goes away as this might be a difference between our builds.  Can you
> tell me what you are using?

I tested this with 48/48 in master.

> It seemed like a race condition because after I got the error I was
> able to do a -c cleanall of libtool and kick off the build again once
> libtool-cross was built and it would pass.  Likewise I did:
> 
> bitbake libtool-cross
> bitbake libtool
> 
> and that would work but just
> 
> bitbake libtool
> 
> would fail.

"bitbake libtool" works here quite consistently. I therefore don't want
to add this dependency until we figure out exactly what is racing
against what or have a better understanding of why this is failing.
Something doesn't seem right as if your premise of a missing dependency
is correct, the above wouldn't work.

Cheers,

Richard