Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] libpcre: fix occasionally do_package_write_rpm error

["Changqing Li" <changqing.li@windriver.com>]

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On 9/1/20 7:08 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-08-28 at 14:14 +0800, Changqing Li wrote:
>> From: Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>
>>
>> Error info:
>> ERROR: libpcre-8.44-r0 do_package_write_rpm: Failure expanding
>> variable
>> SUMMARY_libpcrecpp, expression was ${SUMMARY} - C++ wrapper functions
>> which triggered exception RecursionError: maximum recursion depth
>> exceeded while calling a Python object
>>
>> this error is hard to reproduce, only met one time. Seems expand
>> SUMMARY with reference to SUMMARY cause a dead loop.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>
> What is worrying me is why we can't reproduce this. It should fail or
> not fail, why do we only sometimes see this?
>
> I'd like to understand the cause as it sounds like a determinism
> problem somewhere.
>
> Is there a sequence we can reproduce it with?

Unfortunately no, we also hard to reproduce this, only met one time on 
08 Jul when build a wrlinux image.

And don't see it for about 2 months.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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