[oe] bitbake freeze :(

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Steffen Sledz <sledz at dresearch.de> wrote:
> Khem Raj wrote:
>> you could try couple of things. Firstly try to isolate if its a
>> bitbake problem or not
>> likely its not but still make sure. You can go into the workdir and
>> run the task script
>> run.do_<task> whatever it is stuck at. If it succeeeds then you know
>> its a problem with
>> bitbake if not then the build mechanism for this particular package
>> has problem. You might
>> try to disable parallel build i.e. use -j 1 to make sure that its not
>> some parallel build
>> issue.
>
> I made some tests on this.
>
> First result was that if calling
>
>  > bitbake drapptempl -c clean
>  > bitbake drapptempl
>  Ctrl-C
>  > bitbake drapptempl
>
> the first build request freezes in do_compile stage, the second one
> succeeds (seen in 5 of 5 test runs). Also calling run.do_compile
> succeeds everytime if tried after the first freeze.
>
> After that i checked the parallel build options in my local.conf.
> The tests above were made with
>
>  PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4"
>  BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4"
>
> I tried to set the BB_NUMBER_THREADS to 1 but the problem was still
> existing.
>
> After that i tried to set the PARALLEL_MAKE to "-j 1" and no the
> recipe was build fine.  :)
>
> So it seems that there is a problem with parallel make. But it only
> occurs in a few of our recipes. Therefor i believe that there must be
> something special in there makefiles/recipes.
>
> After a detailed inspection i noted that they all depend on a library
> which uses glib (incl. some tools like gob2). The library itself does
> not have the build problems. But could the problem result from this?
>

disable parallel build for this recipe.

> Steffen
>
>
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