[oe] lirc_0.8.6+cvs20100613: do_package hangs

[Graham Gower]

On 18 October 2010 17:45, Frans Meulenbroeks
<fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/10/18 Graham Gower <graham.gower at gmail.com>:
>> This is quite reproducible, but nothing has changed in the lirc recipe
>> recently (certainly not since it last built successfully for me).
>>
>> I'm out of my depth with this one.
>>
>> -Graham
>
> I've been peeking at this last week (also bumped into it) and have
> discussed it with and send email to kergoth.
>
> Issue seems to be that there are some tasks (like package_do_package)
> have an empty run file.
> When this file is passed to bitbake eventually it tries to exec these
> files and it seems to hang forever (I'm not too familiar with python
> but my guesstimate is that when exec gets an empty file it will read
> from stdin or so (and so waits forever).
>
> I could not find whether the generated files really should be empty
> (and were empty before) or when the problem was introduced (I did a
> rebuild from scratch a week or two weeks ago and didn't get the
> problem then, but could not spot any suspicious commits during that
> time period, and didn't have the time to do a bisect on this.
>
> Then again I noticed Khem pushed 0.8.7 a few hrs ago. Hope that that
> one will solve the problem. (although we should fix the root cause)
>
> Frans

I spoke with Khem about this on IRC. He tracked the problem down to this change:
http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/3189/

-Graham