On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 11:17 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 16:39, chris.lapla...@agilent.com > <chris.lapla...@agilent.com> wrote: > > > That is very impressive and I'd also love to hear about what heuristics it > > uses. > > It's actually rather simple. It uses glob.glob on stamps in tmp/, then > on local sstate to find possible matches, then sorts them by mtime and > takes the most recent. It's what would work most of the time, but we > could add printdiff-all (print difference with all sstate matches) or > printdiff-N (N most recent). It also could abstain from dumping > locked-sigs.inc into cwd with both -S none and -S printdiff, unless > explicitly asked > > I just discovered there's also scripts/bitbake-whatchanged (that > hasn't seen activity in years and is neither documented nor tested). > Unsurprisingly then, it doesn't work in the same scenario: > > ================ > alex@Zen2:/srv/storage/alex/yocto/build-sstate$ bitbake-whatchanged > libsolv-native > Figuring out the STAMPS_DIR ... > Generating the new stamps ... (need several minutes) > > === Summary: (0 changed, 0 unchanged) > Newly added: 0 > PV changed: 0 > PR changed: 0 > Dependencies changed: 0 > > Removing the newly generated stamps dir ... > ================ > > Maybe this is what RP was referring to when he said the tools don't > work properly?
No, I've believed that should probably be removed. I think there was a recent change to it. I think we had a major step change in this functionality working when this was fixed: https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?id=84a7485025dd4473403b8da36a0c979a3afd5e93 and this test case was added: https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?id=1bdcd76d2968c3cc6ec2815afceba1cf98efd6d5 Things which used to be problematic: a) changes involving changes to gcc-source since it uses a shared sources stamps which confused the tools (at least used to). That may have been before gcc-source became a recipe? b) changes to a very common component (e.g. autoconf-native's do_configure) which make it hard to understand where the root cause of the changes came from c) changes which affect many recipes at once, e.g. the do_configure function in base.bbclass It might be helpful to write test cases for the scenario you showed as working above and some of the ones I mention above, then we can document they work and have an easier way to add tests for issues if/as/when we identify the problematic scenarios in future. As you mention, it also uses mtime so perhaps issues happen if you run a different build, then try and go back to the other config? I suspect once you understand the algorithm the code uses, you can pick holes in it. Cheers, Richard
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