[oe] angstrom-2008.1, uclibc: git-native: sysroot-destdir 6, 4 GB big, since some executables are 100 MB each

Paul Menzel paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Jul 21 10:20:42 UTC 2010


Am Dienstag, den 20.07.2010, 15:44 -0700 schrieb Khem Raj:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Paul Menzel
> <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 18.07.2010, 16:48 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> >> Am Samstag, den 17.07.2010, 14:15 +0200 schrieb Koen Kooi:
> >> > On 17-07-10 10:35, Paul Menzel wrote:
> >> > > Am Samstag, den 17.07.2010, 01:03 +0200 schrieb Koen Kooi:
> >> > >> On 16-07-10 17:23, Khem Raj wrote:
> >> > >>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Paul Menzel
> >> > >>> <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > >>>> Am Donnerstag, den 15.07.2010, 19:55 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> >> > >>>>
> >> > >>>>> I ran out of space and noticed
> >> > >>>>>
> >> > >>>>>     /angstrom-dev/work/i686-linux/git-native-1.7.0.2-r4
> >> > >>>>>
> >> > >>>>> is 8,1G big.
> >> > >>>>>
> >> > >>>>> Some of the executable files in
> >> > >>>>>
> >> > >>>>>     /angstrom-dev/work/i686-linux/git-native-1.7.0.2-r4/sysroot-destdir/angstrom-dev/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/libexec/git-core/
> >> > >>>>>
> >> > >>>>> are 101 MB big.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> its most probably the -g3/-ggdb3 bloat.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> No, it's git not creating (hard)links but copies of the same app. Run an
> >> > >> md5sum on the binaries, they will all match. I suggest you stop
> >> > >> spreading FUD about -ggdb3, it is not being appriciated.
> >> > >
> >> > > I do not know anything about the technical background. I can only report
> >> > > that removing `-ggdb3` fixed it for me.
> >> >
> >> > Are you saying that removing -ggdb3 made git create proper (hard)links?
> >>
> >> No, I just said, that after doing as Khem suggested the available space
> >> was big enough.
> >>
> >> Anyway, I tried to investigate a little and could not find anything
> >> related to (hard)link problems. But probably I overlooked something. I
> >> head refresh my memory about hard and soft links [1].
> >>
> >> 1. As you suggested in your reply I ran `md5sum` on the binaries. They
> >> do indeed match on the binaries I posted, but also the inode matches. It
> >> looks like that is way it should be.
> >>
> >>         $ echo "Test" > test
> >>         $ ln test test.link
> >>         $ md5sum test*
> >>         2205e48de5f93c784733ffcca841d2b5  test
> >>         2205e48de5f93c784733ffcca841d2b5  test.link
> >>         $ ls -1i test*
> >>         3653430 test
> >>         3653430 test.link
> >>
> >> So I think the hardlinks were created properly. I did not think of this
> >> when reporting the problem so I did not run `ls -i` on the listed files
> >> and I did not check with `du`.
> >>
> >>         /angstrom-dev/work/i686-linux/git-native-1.7.1.1-r0/image/angstrom-dev/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/libexec/git-core $ md5sum * | sort
> >>         […]
> >>         82c05218d9634923e301a9463e8f9c0d  git-shell
> >>         85edbd7803242b4895ed33b4fcfa3622  git-remote-ftp
> >>         85edbd7803242b4895ed33b4fcfa3622  git-remote-ftps
> >>         85edbd7803242b4895ed33b4fcfa3622  git-remote-http
> >>         85edbd7803242b4895ed33b4fcfa3622  git-remote-https
> >>         89a6ef52f4b7c336fb5fc0601edfd95f  git-mergetool
> >>         9a7f760ecef6e64f370c907d61ad0ffb  git-svn
> >>         9b57eb61ce668f2105a61a467f4d6d9b  git-difftool
> >>         ac3472a81bc59a69119b0d027c3f617b  git-merge-one-file
> >>         b14a5bba57d0ae0ccfdb0fceac0eb4ec  git-merge-octopus
> >>         b6899828bc756c5d30398d49dce91deb  git-cvsexportcommit
> >>         b775de2d21923f5d08e0bdcf3f9d31f6  git-mergetool--lib
> >>         bd786a897bdc214bd5d89f51ad79f152  git-instaweb
> >>         c8466908a274e211a43d287e510f2f19  git-merge-resolve
> >>         ce109bd27d9404980bd82ddb529eca90  git-send-email
> >>         d3da496bd962246727ceaabc1d4b1bdd  git-sh-setup
> >>         d46c9b755b712bf3c27521b3c6e5fd30  git-relink
> >>         d4b577d9a69d9af883de29d6af4f04c5  git
> >>         d4b577d9a69d9af883de29d6af4f04c5  git-add
> >>         d4b577d9a69d9af883de29d6af4f04c5  git-annotate
> >>         d4b577d9a69d9af883de29d6af4f04c5  git-apply
> >>         […]
> >>
> >>         /angstrom-dev/work/i686-linux/git-native-1.7.1.1-r0/image/angstrom-dev/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/libexec/git-core $ ls -1i
> >>         [ … ordered manually to match md5sum output]
> >>         3691063 git-shell
> >>         3691070 git-remote-ftp
> >>         3691070 git-remote-ftps
> >>         3691070 git-remote-http
> >>         3691070 git-remote-https
> >>         3691082 git-mergetool
> >>         3691100 git-svn
> >>         3691093 git-difftool
> >>         3691080 git-merge-one-file
> >>         3691079 git-merge-octopus
> >>         3691095 git-cvsexportcommit
> >>         3691102 git-mergetool--lib
> >>         3691101 git-instaweb
> >>         3691081 git-merge-resolve
> >>         3691099 git-send-email
> >>         3691104 git-sh-setup
> >>         3691098 git-relink
> >>         3691105 git
> >>         […]
> >>
> >> What did I miss? Were you seeing something different?
> >>
> >> 2. You seem to have investigated this problem before and committed a fix
> >> for git [2].
> >>
> >>     git 1.7.0.2: fix hardlinking problems as reported by Eric Brombaugh
> >>
> >> I could not find Eric’s report on this list or the Web. So I have to
> >> test without your patch. But `git-native` does not seem to use your
> >> patch, so I guess the behavior should be the one without your patch.
> >>
> >> Could you please tell me if my observations are correct.
> >
> > I am a little bit lost. Koen, could you give me a pointer, please, so
> > that I can try to continue to solve this issue.
> 
> Koen fixed it for target git recipe I guess you need to port that fix
> to git-native as well.
> if you want to use git-native built with OE.

But as far as I see, the hardlinks were created correctly in git-native
for me. So I do not know what I am supposed to do.


Thanks,

Paul


> >> [1] info coreutils "ln invocation"
> >> [2] http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=84de51631e1e7bb76141332807ed2ba9e8df02ae
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