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    <bug>
          <bug_id>16172</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2026-02-13 12:32:50 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>intel-media-driver: ninja: posix_spawn: Argument list too long</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2026-02-17 22:31:58 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>7</classification_id>
          <classification>Build System, Metadata &amp; Runtime</classification>
          <product>BSPs</product>
          <component>bsps-meta-intel</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>x86</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>Multiple</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>FIXED</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc></bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>Undecided</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>0.0.0</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Mathieu Dubois-Briand">mathieu.dubois-briand</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Anuj Mittal">anuj.mittal</assigned_to>
          <cc>yoann.congal</cc>
          
          
          <cf_os>---</cf_os>
          <cf_regression_type>---</cf_regression_type>
          
          <cf_docchange>No (bug/feature does not impact docs)</cf_docchange>

      

      

      

          <comment_sort_order>oldest_to_newest</comment_sort_order>  
          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>104292</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Mathieu Dubois-Briand">mathieu.dubois-briand</who>
    <bug_when>2026-02-13 12:32:50 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Build of the meta-intel intel-media-driver recipe has been failing for a few days now. Opening an issue to track the progress.

The error:
ERROR: intel-media-driver-26.1.0-r0 do_compile: Execution of &apos;/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/meta-intel/build/build/tmp/work/corei7-64-poky-linux/intel-media-driver/26.1.0/temp/run.do_compile.3323861&apos; failed with exit code 1
...
| Run Build Command(s): ninja -v -j 16 all
...
| ninja: fatal: posix_spawn: Argument list too long


Status from Yogesh:
&gt; The only solution I could find at present is to shorten the build path.
&gt; 
&gt; Cause:
&gt; 
&gt; * `intel-media-driver` CMake generates ~626 include directories per compilation unit
&gt; * With long paths, the expanded compiler arguments exceed Linux `ARG_MAX`
&gt; * GCC expands response files before spawning `cc1plus`, so wrappers/response files don’t help
&gt; * This is a kernel limitation, not a Yocto or compiler bug

Original mails:
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/swat/message/571
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/message/66239

Upstream bug entry:
https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1984</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>104294</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Mathieu Dubois-Briand">mathieu.dubois-briand</who>
    <bug_when>2026-02-13 12:39:41 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>meta-intel stream9-vk-1 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-02-12 18:42:50+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3012/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel fedora42-vk-1 master completed at 2026-02-13 03:26:05+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3014/steps/13/logs/stdio</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>104314</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Mathieu Dubois-Briand">mathieu.dubois-briand</who>
    <bug_when>2026-02-16 11:47:47 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>meta-intel debian13-vk-1 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-02-13 15:57:38+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3019/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel debian11-vk-1 master-next&amp;master completed at 2026-02-13 17:37:12+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3021/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel debian12-vk-2 master-next&amp;master completed at 2026-02-14 00:20:28+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3022/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel debian12-vk-6 master completed at 2026-02-14 01:42:34+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3023/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel debian13-vk-2 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-02-14 07:18:17+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3024/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel debian12-vk-5 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-02-14 10:06:58+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3025/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel fedora40-vk-2 mathieu/master-next&amp;mathieu/master-next-rfcs completed at 2026-02-14 16:57:35+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3026/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel fedora40-vk-4 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-02-14 20:29:32+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3027/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel debian13-vk-2 master completed at 2026-02-15 01:11:04+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3028/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel rocky9-vk-2 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-02-15 15:07:25+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3029/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel rocky9-vk-3 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-02-15 19:24:03+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3031/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel rocky9-vk-1 master completed at 2026-02-16 01:15:34+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3032/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel fedora40-vk-4 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-02-16 07:12:07+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3033/steps/13/logs/stdio

meta-intel ubuntu2404-vk-1 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-02-16 10:55:07+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/41/builds/3034/steps/13/logs/stdio</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>104327</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="Yoann Congal">yoann.congal</who>
    <bug_when>2026-02-17 10:09:30 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>contrib/ycongal/whinlatter-nut meta-intel debian12-vk-2 https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/?#/builders/41/builds/2964
contrib/ycongal/whinlatter-nut meta-intel ubuntu2204-vk-1 https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/?#/builders/41/builds/2966
contrib/ycongal/whinlatter-nut meta-intel rocky9-vk-1 https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/?#/builders/41/builds/2991
contrib/ycongal/whinlatter-nut meta-intel debian12-vk-8 https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/?#/builders/41/builds/3008
contrib/ycongal/whinlatter-nut meta-intel debian12-vk-4 https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/?#/builders/41/builds/3010
contrib/ycongal/whinlatter-nut meta-intel fedora40-vk-2 https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/?#/builders/41/builds/3013
contrib/ycongal/whinlatter-nut meta-intel debian12-vk-3 https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/?#/builders/41/builds/3037</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>104338</commentid>
    <comment_count>4</comment_count>
    <who name="Yoann Congal">yoann.congal</who>
    <bug_when>2026-02-17 22:31:58 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>The commit &quot;intel-media-driver : upgrade 25.1.4 -&gt; 26.1.0&quot; has been reverted on master and whinlatter of meta-intel:
Revert &quot;intel-media-driver : upgrade 25.1.4 -&gt; 26.1.0&quot; https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-intel/commit/?id=8ce44f818b975c2b2e125f703df2cbd3403acf9c

meta-intel builds to check:
master: https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/?#/builders/41/builds/3043
whinlatter: https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/?#/builders/41/builds/3044
... both successful

Closing</thetext>
  </long_desc>
      
      

    </bug>

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