Hello there, Since a couple of days, it seems that http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ randomly points to non-functional mirrors to download coreboot relative packages in CI builds.
I would say that CircleCI fails 2/3 of the time in current builds, at different places. As you may know, building coreboot requires to download different tarballs prior of building its own musl-cross toolchain prior of building coreboot from it. In the case of Heads project, which builds boards ROMs for different coreboot versions, it means that each time that a Heads' module definition changes, the original coreboot musl-cross related tarballs need to be downloaded again prior of being in CircleCI's cache for next builds only related to scripts changes. Consequently, in the past (3?) days, CircleCI attempted to download packages from different ftpmirror.gnu.org mirrors, sometimes being successful, and sometimes failing after 2h of building time. I'm trying to build for more then 24 hours now with really low success rate from that situation, and i'm seeking at least acknowledgement and/or some advices, since pinning coreboot to selected mirrors would be a hack and not interesting in the long term. The output exerpt of CircleCI looks like this, which doesn't help much: make -C util/crossgcc build-i386 build_iasl SKIP_GDB=1 bash ./buildgcc -p i386-elf -j 4 \ -d /root/project/build/coreboot-4.8.1/util/crossgcc/xgcc Welcome to the coreboot cross toolchain builder v1.52 (June 11th, 2018) Building toolchain using 4 thread(s). Target architecture is i386-elf Found compatible Ada compiler, enabling Ada support by default. Downloading and verifing tarballs ... * gmp-6.1.2.tar.xz (downloading from https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gmp/gmp-6.1.2.tar.xz)... 0% 2% 5% 7% 10% 13% 15% 18% 21% 23% 26% 28% 31% 34% 36% 39% 42% 44% 47% 49% 52% 55% 57% 60% 63% 65% 68% 71% 73% 76% 78% 81% 84% 86% 89% 92% 94% 97% 99%100%... hash verified ("9dc6981197a7d92f339192eea974f5eca48fcffe") * mpfr-3.1.5.tar.xz (downloading from https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mpfr/mpfr-3.1.5.tar.xz)... 0%... Failed to download mpfr-3.1.5.tar.xz. make[3]: *** [Makefile:26: build_gcc] Error 1 make[2]: *** [Makefile:48: build-i386] Error 2 make[1]: *** [util/crossgcc/Makefile.inc:46: crossgcc-i386] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/project/build/coreboot-4.8.1' make: *** [modules/coreboot:75: "/root/project/build/coreboot-4.8.1/.xcompile"] Error 2 CircleCI received exit code 0 And where local tests, happening throuhg QubesOS and whonix, tries different mirrors at each attempt which normally succeed. To I guess it comes to where CircleCI's instance is located which selects failing mirrors. If you can do anything about this, that would be helpful. Currently, i'm sure everyone using CircleCI to build stuff depending on your mirrors are having big migraines. Thanks! Thierry Laurion https://insurgo.ca
