16093 2025-12-08 15:49:13 +0000 Compatibility with old sed/awk interferes with reproducibility 2025-12-11 15:58:08 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core devtools / tool chain unspecified x86 Multiple NEW Medium+ normal 6.99 1 yoann.congal unassigned ccasciato meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher randy.macleod yoann.congal --- --- No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 103508 0 yoann.congal 2025-12-08 15:49:13 +0000 For HPUX, Solaris & AIX compatibility, sed/awk literal strings length are limited to <150 characters. We often try to fix reproducibility with sed by replacing non-reproducible paths by reproducible ones. In some cases, the line break added to limit literal string length prevent the sed to match the non-reproducible path (because it is split across 2 lines). An idea is to drop the compatibility with Unixes we don't support by increasing the maximum line length to something modern sed/awk can handle. This is the idea of this patch: [PATCH] autoconf: Raise line length limit for sed/awk https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/226850 BUT, it created weird errors on AB when tested by Mathieu: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/227203 > I've had some issues on the autobuilder for a few days, and it looks > like it was triggered by this patch. While there was no specific error, > the -tc build jobs had been running for several days and never ending. > > One example: > https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/?#/builders/66/builds/2740 > > I've had a look on the worker: it looks like the host nfs server, used > to share files with the tests running in qemu, had been failing: > > pokybui+ 4115014 1.1 0.0 0 0 ? Z 14:23 4:32 [unfsd] <defunct> > > I clearly can't see how this can be linked to this patch, yet, git > bisect points to it, and after its removal I don't have the issue > anymore. Further work is need to understand why this fails or if there is another way to fix reproducibility for packages impacted by compatibility line-break. 103530 1 randy.macleod 2025-12-11 15:58:08 +0000 Explore the range between 128 and 4000?