Bug 8870

Summary:	uclibc fails to build occasionally
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Khem Raj <raj.khem>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	2.2
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Ross Burton 2016-01-05 16:04:10 UTC

| .done
|   GEN extra/locale/locale_tables.h
| UTF-8 locales are enabled
| 8-BIT locales are enabled
| total data size = 520
|   GEN extra/locale/locale_collate.h
| Makefile.in:187: recipe for target 'headers' failed
| make: *** [headers] Error 2
| make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....


and

| 0x10fffd : curr_stdclib    0 != 0x58 mine 6
| .done
|   GEN /extra/locale/locale_collate.h
| xargs: ../..//extra/locale/gen_collate: Text file busy
| make[1]: *** [../..//extra/locale/locale_collate.h] Error 126
| make: *** [headers] Error 2
| make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
| WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command.

Looks like a parallel race.  I've submitted a patch to disable parallel builds but unless uclibc is removed from oe-core entirely we should fix the race as it causes a big performance hit.

Comment 1 Ross Burton 2016-01-07 16:00:58 UTC

Reassigning to Khem as the best candidate for uclibc maintainer.  There's a workaround in tree but the performance hit is not good.

Obviously if musl reaches the point where it is better than uclibc in master then we can close this.

Comment 2 Khem Raj 2016-11-14 17:40:26 UTC

uclibc is removed from OE-core

Comment 3 Ross Burton 2016-11-14 17:42:16 UTC

I'm such a pedant but ...