Re: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml: Work around htags bug when environment is large

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 11/1/24 13:55, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Sometimes the CI "pages" job fails with a message like this from
> htags:
> 
> $ htags -anT --tree-view=filetree -m qemu_init -t "Welcome to the QEMU sourcecode"
> htags: Negative exec line limit = -371
> 
> This is due to a bug in hflags where if the environment is too large it
> falls over:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-global/2024-01/msg00000.html
> 
> This happens to us because GitLab CI puts the commit message of the
> commit under test into the CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE and/or CI_COMMIT_TAG_MESSAGE
> environment variables, so the job will fail if the commit happens to
> have a verbose commit message.
> 
> Work around the htags bug by unsetting these variables while running
> htags.
> 
> Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2080
> ---
> Cc'ing stable purely because it's probably useful to avoid flaky
> CI jobs when testing stable branches too.
> 
>   .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml | 5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>