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Ocasionally fails to builld on FreeBSD

Open Minoru opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

We're using gettext-rs in newsboat, and it sometimes fails to build libgettext.so on FreeBSD: https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5006678288498688 @dennisschagt tracked down the cause; quoting from https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/pull/1259#issuecomment-725417492:

The FreeBSD 11.4 build failed twice before passing:

FAIL: https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5006678288498688 - https://api.cirrus-ci.com/v1/task/5006678288498688/logs/build.log FAIL: https://cirrus-ci.com/task/6060093349298176 - https://api.cirrus-ci.com/v1/task/6060093349298176/logs/build.log PASS: https://cirrus-ci.com/task/6252468717748224 - https://api.cirrus-ci.com/v1/task/6252468717748224/logs/build.log

In the failed logs, chmod .../libgettextlib.a is called but fails with error message "No such file or directory". I think this has to do with a line further up rm -f .../libgettextlib.a: https://github.com/autotools-mirror/gettext/blob/50ed3f11426e301cb68f837fce5900f4954cb6b8/gnulib-local/modules/gettext-tools-misc#L39 The following description seems to apply here as well: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2014-07/msg00008.html (see (2)).

His suggestion is to try to build gettext-rs without parallelism, but I don't believe it's possible to build one of Newsboat's dependencies with custom settings like this. Instead, I think we should edit gettext-sys's build.rs and disable parallelism there.

The root cause looks generic enough to be reproducible on any system, but I don't recall seeing it fail like this on Linux; no idea what's so special about our FreeBSD builds.

Minoru avatar Nov 11 '20 17:11 Minoru

Links to logs expired, and I failed to reproduce this in a virtual machine. This bug will have to wait until me (or someone else) spots it in the wild again.

Minoru avatar Feb 21 '21 18:02 Minoru

I haven't seen this for at least half a year, so I'll assume that a newer GNU gettext version fixed it (somehow). Closing for now.

Minoru avatar May 11 '21 15:05 Minoru

It happened again (in Newsboat's CI at commit https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/commit/8113cadc022bae5ef81934e6650bb8188f319d2b, similar to https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/commit/c2682bfb05fe9dee981bdf7ccc876e0da896dd84). The build log: build.log.gz

Minoru avatar Jul 03 '24 17:07 Minoru