[OE-core] [PATCH 0/1] ncurses: Avoid occasional builling failure when having parallel processable task

[Saul Wold]

On 05/21/2012 01:51 AM, xiaofeng.yan at windriver.com wrote:
> From: Xiaofeng Yan<xiaofeng.yan at windriver.com>
>
> | tic: error while loading shared libraries: /srv/home/pokybuild \
> /yocto-autobuilder/yocto-slave/nightly-non-gpl3/build/build/tmp/\
> work/x86_64-linux/ncurses-native-5.9-r8.1/ncurses-5.9/narrowc/lib\
> /libtinfo.so.5: file too short
> | ? tic could not build /srv/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/\
> yocto-slave/nightly-non-gpl3/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/\
> ncurses-native-5.9-r8.1/image/srv/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder\
> /yocto-slave/nightly-non-gpl3/build/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux\
> /usr/share/terminfo
> | make[1]: *** [install.data] Error 1
>
> This is a race issue which is caused by
> install.libs and install.data:
>
> 1) install.data needs run tic
> 2) tic needs libtinfo.so
> 3) install.libs would regenerate libtinfo.so
> 4) but install.data doesn't depend on install.libs, and they can run
>     parallelly
>
> So there would be errors in a very critical condition: tic is begining
> to run at the same time when install.libs is generating libtinfo.so, and
> this libtinfo.so is not integrity, then there would be the  above error.
>
> Let task install.libs run before install.data for fixing this bug.
>
> The following changes since commit b4c8c74a45e386f99344cf9799eb5294ad6c9e3e:
>    Joshua Lock (1):
>          hob: update required pygtk to 2.22.0 and gtk+ to 2.20.0
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>    git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib xiaofeng/2298
>    http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=xiaofeng/2298
>
> Xiaofeng Yan (1):
>    ncurses: Avoid occasional builling failure when having parallel
>      processable task
>
>   meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc |   23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
>   1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>
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Merged into OE-Core

Thanks
	Sau!