Random build failures (rump)

2016-10-16 Thread coypu
Hi, There are sometimes build failures that seem to be from race conditions, I've seen rump do it, maybe others too. e.g. http://releng.netbsd.org/builds/netbsd-6/201610160430Z/ews4800mips.build.failed http://releng.netbsd.org/builds/netbsd-6-1/201610122020Z/evbmips-mips64el.build.failed It see

Re: Random build failures (rump)

2016-10-16 Thread coypu
However, I'm not sure if the failures I mentioned are related.

Re: Random build failures (rump)

2016-10-16 Thread David Holland
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 12:43:02PM +, co...@sdf.org wrote: > However, I'm not sure if the failures I mentioned are related. As far as I know nobody's sure what's causing those failures. There's no errors during the build. Last I remember hearing it's thought to be something wrong with tmpfs :

Re: Random build failures (rump)

2016-10-16 Thread coypu
Interestingly, some stuff within src/lib/librumpuser uses $RANDOM and assumes that it does what it says, deleting old content in new supposedly random directory. (lib/librumpuser/build-aux/install-sh, newest version still does it, though.) That wouldn't work too well for us - I wonder if that has

Re: Random build failures (rump)

2016-10-16 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 09:39:16PM +, co...@sdf.org wrote: > Interestingly, some stuff within src/lib/librumpuser uses > $RANDOM and assumes that it does what it says, deleting > old content in new supposedly random directory. If it does, it is broken and should be fixed by using mktemp. Joer