[Buildroot] [buildroot-test] scripts/autobuild-run: extend timeout from 120 to 180 minutes

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 16:10:09 +0100
Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com> wrote:

> > Please
> > note that this HUNG_BUILD_TIMEOUT value is the per-step timeout: it
> > verifies that one step of one particular package doesn't take more than
> > 120 minutes.  
> 
> Ah, I thought the entire build, but that makes no sense since some build 
> can take way more than 2 hours.

There used to be a global timeout for the build, but we had false
positives when really large configurations were built. Due to this,
commit 86892c63f754b4f6c9a4a517fde30160127b3506 change to a more fine
grained timeout: we monitor the file build-time.log (which gets
appended everytime the step of a package starts or ends), and we time
out after HUNG_BUILD_TIMEOUT minutes if that file hasn't changed;

> > Did you identify that the python-uvloop and python-lxml packages really
> > took more than 2 hours to build? I did see at
> > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/?status=TIMEOUT those timeouts dating
> > back from ~November. Did you reproduce the issue, and verified that the
> > build indeed completes at some point? In general, if a simple package
> > such as python-uvloop or python-lxml takes more than 2 hours to build,
> > it means that the compiler (or linker) has gone crazy in an infinite
> > loop, and the build will in fact never finish.  
> 
> It was only my suspicious as specified in commit log. I couldn't 
> reproduce it and I thought it was due to the autobuilder's host.
> 
> And yes, now that I know it's a per-step timeout it doesn't make sense 
> at all for such little packages.

Yes, for such small packages, it clearly hints at a compiler/linker bug
that stays stuck in an infinite loop.

Thomas
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