From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 02:04:32 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Fix a false error of generic board support In-Reply-To: <20141216235646.GL20704@bill-the-cat> References: <20141216235646.GL20704@bill-the-cat> Message-ID: <201412170204.32262.marex@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 at 12:56:46 AM, Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 02:56:44PM -0600, mgerlach wrote: > > Hello Masahiro Yamada, > > > > Even the with this patch, we encountered a false error of generic board > > support. The problem was very interrmittent for us, but we were able > > to debug the problem to performing builds on EXT3 file systems which > > have a time stamp resolution of one second. To reproduce the problem, > > touch ./include/config/auto.conf and .config on a configured uboot tree > > on an EXT3 file system. > > > > The patch below fixes the problem for us. > > This makes an odd race condition problem I run into when doing massively > paralell builds worse :( With MAKEALL no ARM boards build (ARCH wasn't > set in time so it tried arch//Makefile for something) and buildman was > also broken in a bunch of places. Let me just chime in, I recall I did report something possibly similar some time ago [1]. I did not manage to put a finger on this issue though and I can no longer trigger it. [1] http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-June/157481.html Best regards, Marek Vasut