[OE-core] Tell me your build error message annoyances!

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:26:21PM -0700, Scott Garman wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I'd like to collect some feedback on error messages while building that 
> you find confusing/annoying/unhelpful. I'm going to be working on trying 
> to improve the situation and would like to hear from you about what 
> could be more helpful.
> 
> I'm starting to track some of these situations with the following bugs:
> 
> http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542
> 
> http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1127
> 
> http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1128
> 
> I can't promise to fix everything you come up with, but I'd like to try 
> to make a dent in some of these issues and improve the usability of our 
> build system.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott

Hi,

I have
PATCHRESOLVE = "noop"
in my local.conf, because I prefer it to fail and continue building something else (with -k) 
instead of waiting for user to resolve it in another screen session

but simple message that patch_do_patch failed because patch wasn't found or didn't apply
without python trace would be much better.

NOTE: Running task 345 of 353 (ID: 1, virtual:native:/OE/shr-core/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gobject-introspection_git.bb, do_patch)
NOTE: package gobject-introspection-native-1.29.0+gitr2+8d64bc23d2b837421ecf9c7b0e4b8d5d95ca0d21-r4: task do_patch: Started
NOTE: Applying patch 'pathfix.patch' (openembedded-core/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gobject-introspection/pathfix.patch)
ERROR: Error executing a python function in /OE/shr-core/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gobject-introspection_git.bb:
CmdError: Command Error: exit status: 1  Output:
Applying patch pathfix.patch
patching file giscanner/dumper.py
Hunk #1 FAILED at 82.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- rejects in file giscanner/dumper.py
patching file giscanner/scannermain.py
Hunk #1 FAILED at 283.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- rejects in file giscanner/scannermain.py
Patch pathfix.patch does not apply (enforce with -f)

ERROR: The stack trace of python calls that resulted in this exception/failure was:
ERROR:   File "patch_do_patch", line 136, in <module>
ERROR:
ERROR:   File "patch_do_patch", line 133, in patch_do_patch
ERROR:
ERROR:   File "/OE/shr-core/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oe/patch.py", line 338, in Resolve
ERROR:     raise sys.exc_value
ERROR:
ERROR: The code that was being executed was:
ERROR:      0132:                       raise bb.build.FuncFailed(str(sys.exc_value))
ERROR:      0133:               resolver.Resolve()
ERROR:      0134:
ERROR:      0135:
ERROR:  *** 0136:patch_do_patch(d)
ERROR:      0137:
ERROR: (file: 'patch_do_patch', lineno: 136, function: <module>)
ERROR:      0129:                       patchset.Import({"file":local, "remote":url, "strippath": striplevel}, True)
ERROR:      0130:               except Exception:
ERROR:      0131:                       import sys
ERROR:      0132:                       raise bb.build.FuncFailed(str(sys.exc_value))
ERROR:  *** 0133:               resolver.Resolve()
ERROR:      0134:
ERROR:      0135:
ERROR:      0136:patch_do_patch(d)
ERROR:      0137:
ERROR: (file: 'patch_do_patch', lineno: 133, function: patch_do_patch)
ERROR: Function 'patch_do_patch' failed
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /OE/shr-core/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gobject-introspection-native-1.29.0+gitr2+8d64bc23d2b837421ecf9c7b0e4b8d5d95ca0d21-r4/temp/log.do_patch.9995
Log data follows:
| NOTE: Applying patch 'pathfix.patch' (openembedded-core/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gobject-introspection/pathfix.patch)
| ERROR: Error executing a python function in /OE/shr-core/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gobject-introspection_git.bb:
| CmdError: Command Error: exit status: 1  Output:
| Applying patch pathfix.patch
| patching file giscanner/dumper.py
| Hunk #1 FAILED at 82.
| 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- rejects in file giscanner/dumper.py
| patching file giscanner/scannermain.py
| Hunk #1 FAILED at 283.
| 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- rejects in file giscanner/scannermain.py
| Patch pathfix.patch does not apply (enforce with -f)
|
| ERROR: The stack trace of python calls that resulted in this exception/failure was:
| ERROR:   File "patch_do_patch", line 136, in <module>
| ERROR:
| ERROR:   File "patch_do_patch", line 133, in patch_do_patch
| ERROR:
| ERROR:   File "/OE/shr-core/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oe/patch.py", line 338, in Resolve
| ERROR:     raise sys.exc_value
| ERROR:
| ERROR: The code that was being executed was:
| ERROR:      0132:                     raise bb.build.FuncFailed(str(sys.exc_value))
| ERROR:      0133:             resolver.Resolve()
| ERROR:      0134:
| ERROR:      0135:
| ERROR:  *** 0136:patch_do_patch(d)
| ERROR:      0137:
| ERROR: (file: 'patch_do_patch', lineno: 136, function: <module>)
| ERROR:      0129:                     patchset.Import({"file":local, "remote":url, "strippath": striplevel}, True)
| ERROR:      0130:             except Exception:
| ERROR:      0131:                     import sys
| ERROR:      0132:                     raise bb.build.FuncFailed(str(sys.exc_value))
| ERROR:  *** 0133:             resolver.Resolve()
| ERROR:      0134:
| ERROR:      0135:
| ERROR:      0136:patch_do_patch(d)
| ERROR:      0137:
| ERROR: (file: 'patch_do_patch', lineno: 133, function: patch_do_patch)
| ERROR: Function 'patch_do_patch' failed
NOTE: package gobject-introspection-native-1.29.0+gitr2+8d64bc23d2b837421ecf9c7b0e4b8d5d95ca0d21-r4: task do_patch: Failed
ERROR: Task 1 (virtual:native:/OE/shr-core/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gobject-introspection_git.bb, do_patch) failed with exit code '1'
ERROR: 'virtual:native:/OE/shr-core/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gobject-introspection_git.bb' failed

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com