On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 04:27:06PM +0100, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 31.12.2019 16:05, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 10:33:45AM +0100, Branko Čibej wrote: > >> The OpenBSD buildbot seems to have a 50% chance of failing due to a bus > >> error deep inside the Ruby runtime (most likely caused by misaligned > >> memory access). This makes rather less useful than it could be. > >> > >> I'm wondering if it would make sense to just skip building and testing > >> the Ruby bindings there, and perhaps make a separate build configuration > >> that tests just the Ruby bindings on OpenBSD. > > The problem cannot happen during every run. AFAIK it occurs during > > the build of Ruby itself, not the SVN ruby bindings build or tests. > > And Ruby itself will only be recompiled if Makefile.svn is changed > > or the system is rebooted (the build files live in a ramdisk). > > Oh ... I seem to have misunderstood the issue. So it's actually even > worse and the tests are held hostage to a depenency build. Would there > be a way to completely detach the building of dependencies from building > and testing Subversion? E.g., the dependencies could be installed to a > more presistent location and only rebuilt if their sources changed.
Honestly instead of working on that I'd rather put effort into fixing the underlying Ruby issue.
