Bug 14777

Summary: autoconf-native do_compile failure: m4:lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4f:1: expecting character `V' in frozen file
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni>
Component: devtools / tool chainAssignee: Unassigned <unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: alexandre.belloni, changqing.li, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, randy.macleod, richard.purdie
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 5.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: AB-INT AB-HAVE-PLAN
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Alexandre Belloni 2022-04-06 12:19:51 UTC 
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/117/builds/624/steps/12/logs/stdio
reproducible tumbleweed-ty-3 



| autom4te_perllibdir='../autoconf-2.71'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='lib/autom4te.cfg'         bin/autom4te -B ''lib -B '../autoconf-2.71'/lib         --language=M4sh ../autoconf-2.71/tests/wrapper.as -o tests/wrapper.in
| m4:lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4f:1: expecting character `V' in frozen file
| autom4te: error: m4 failed with exit status: 1
| make[1]: *** [Makefile:2249: tests/wrapper.in] Error 1
| make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
| make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/autoconf-native/2.71-r0/build'
| make: *** [Makefile:918: all] Error 2
| ERROR: oe_runmake failed
| WARNING: /home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/autoconf-native/2.71-r0/temp/run.do_compile.40589:186 exit 1 from 'exit 1'
| WARNING: Backtrace (BB generated script):
| 	#1: bbfatal_log, /home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/autoconf-native/2.71-r0/temp/run.do_compile.40589, line 186
| 	#2: die, /home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/autoconf-native/2.71-r0/temp/run.do_compile.40589, line 170
| 	#3: oe_runmake, /home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/autoconf-native/2.71-r0/temp/run.do_compile.40589, line 165
| 	#4: autotools_do_compile, /home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/autoconf-native/2.71-r0/temp/run.do_compile.40589, line 160
| 	#5: do_compile, /home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/autoconf-native/2.71-r0/temp/run.do_compile.40589, line 155
| 	#6: main, /home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/autoconf-native/2.71-r0/temp/run.do_compile.40589, line 199
NOTE: recipe autoconf-native-2.71-r0: task do_compile: Failed
Comment 1 Randy MacLeod 2022-04-07 14:43:55 UTC 
Hopefully a rare race.
Comment 2 Richard Purdie 2022-04-12 21:27:50 UTC 
Seen once in Windriver internal builds too, so rare but has been seen by others.
Comment 3 Randy MacLeod 2022-06-16 15:07:30 UTC 
Sandy, If we see this in the WRAXL build failures, please add a comment and ideally some debug code or a fix! ;)
Comment 4 Randy MacLeod 2023-10-30 15:37:29 UTC 
Build move to 5.0 -- ../Randy
Comment 5 Randy MacLeod 2024-03-07 17:28:04 UTC 
Not seen in ~ 2 years.