[OE-core] [PATCH] autotools.bbclass: Add functionality to force a clean of ${B} when reconfiguring (and ${S} != ${B})

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 20:21 +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> I've seen this now:
> 
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/flex-2.5.35-r3/temp/log.do_configure.26311
> Log data follows:
> | DEBUG: Executing python function sysroot_cleansstate
> | DEBUG: Removing manifest:
> /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/sysroots/beagleboard/usr/include/FlexLexer.h
> | DEBUG: Removing manifest:
> /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/sysroots/beagleboard/usr/lib/libfl.a
> | DEBUG: Removing manifest:
> /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/sysroots/beagleboard/usr/lib/libfl_pic.a
> | DEBUG: Removing manifest:
> /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/sysroots/beagleboard/usr/include/
> | DEBUG: Removing manifest:
> /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/sysroots/beagleboard/usr/share/
> | DEBUG: Removing manifest:
> /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/sysroots/beagleboard/usr/lib/
> | DEBUG: Removing manifest:
> /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/sysroots/beagleboard/usr/
> | DEBUG: Python function sysroot_cleansstate finished
> | DEBUG: SITE files ['endian-little', 'bit-32', 'arm-common',
> 'common-linux', 'common-glibc', 'arm-linux', 'arm-linux-gnueabi',
> 'common']
> | DEBUG: Executing shell function autotools_preconfigure
> | DEBUG: Shell function autotools_preconfigure finished
> | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_configure
> | automake (GNU automake) 1.12.3
> | Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> | License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
> | This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> | There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> |
> | Written by Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat.com>
> |        and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl at gnu.org>.
> | AUTOV is 1.12
> | NOTE: Executing autoreconf --verbose --install --force
> --exclude=autopoint -I
> /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/flex-2.5.35-r3/flex-2.5.35/m4/
> -I/local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share/aclocal-1.12
> -I /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/flex-2.5.35-r3/flex-2.5.35/aclocal-copy/
> | autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> | autoreconf: running: aclocal -I
> /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/flex-2.5.35-r3/flex-2.5.35/m4/
> -I /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share/aclocal-1.12
> -I /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/flex-2.5.35-r3/flex-2.5.35/aclocal-copy/
> -I /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/flex-2.5.35-r3/flex-2.5.35/m4/
> -I /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share/aclocal-1.12
> -I /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/flex-2.5.35-r3/flex-2.5.35/aclocal-copy/
> --force -I m4
> | aclocal: error: aclocal: file
> '/local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share/aclocal/gconf-2.m4'
> does not exist
> | autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> | ERROR: autoreconf execution failed.
> | ERROR: Function failed: do_configure (see
> /local/yocto/upstream/label/fedora17-64b/machine/beagleboard/poky/master/tmp/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/flex-2.5.35-r3/temp/log.do_configure.26311
> for further information)

Totally unrelated, likely a transient race we're meant to have fixed but
don't seem to have done so :/

The supposed fix was:
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=a92ff3ad4212f8966bbd3f6defcb112737d81cda

Cheers,

Richard