On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 at 13:50, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 at 10:35, Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 09:23:37AM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > > Hi, > > > ERROR: nbctfmerge: Input file adiantum_selftest.o was partially built > > > from C sources, but no CTF data was present > > > > Can you reproduce it after removing that .o file (or the whole kernel build > > directory)? > > I did reproduce it once more after removing that .o file. Subsequently > I nuked the entire obj directory and restarted. > > I suspect this was a result of my previous attempt to build it on that > particular host using NJOBS=4 - it is a quite old now system with an > i7-2600K CPU on an Intel motherboard; it has some memory problems > under heavier multicore load (memtest+ passes each individual stick > fine, but whenever more than one stick is in use, any conbination of > the four, two tests fail, one of them Intel says is not actually a > failure, but apparently the other is...). I run the builds normally > with NJOBS=1 and I am now so repeating the full i386 build.
.... which completed OK; there were no intervening cvs updates at all, so the reason for the failure must have been exactly the above. > > > > This symptom often shows up when one of the ctf tools died in an earlier > > run. > > > > Martin > > Chavdar > > > -- > ---- -- ----
