[Buildroot] Analysis of build results for 2017-08-14
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Aug 17 07:47:51 UTC 2017
Hello,
On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:48:10 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> > So if it was just the Sourcery toolchain being unable to build
> > ruby-2.4.1, I think we would have a lot more failures than that. So it
> > might be a toolchain issue, but that occurs under very specific
> > conditions.
>
> ruby has a bunch of optional dependencies, so yes indeed it only occurs for
> some exotic combination of these dependencies.
>
> So I checked the source of the Sourcery toolchain and it does NOT have the
> patch of bug 20006 applied, even though it was released in binutils 2.26.1, 4
> months before the Sourcery release...
>
> So, we could try to find out which exact combination of packages triggers this
> issue, but is that worth it for something that happens twice in five months...
True, but it's annoying to have those sporadic failures once in a
while :-/
Thomas
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