On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 20:42, Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com> wrote:

> > It fails to run task do_populate_sysroot of adwaita-icon-theme rarely:
> >
> > | DEBUG: Executing shell function sysroot_stage_all
> > | cpio: ./icons/Adwaita/16x16/legacy/_inst.21134_: Cannot stat: No such
> >    file or directory
> >
> > In script ${S}/install-sh, temporary files _inst.* are created and will
> be
> > removed by shell builtin command trap when the script exits:
> >
> >      # Make a couple of temp file names in the proper directory.
> >      dsttmp=${dstdirslash}_inst.$$_
> >      rmtmp=${dstdirslash}_rm.$$_
> >
> >      # Trap to clean up those temp files at exit.
> >      trap 'ret=$?; rm -f "$dsttmp" "$rmtmp" && exit $ret' 0
> >
> > The temporary files should be deleted already after task do_install. But
> > somehow they are still exist until the gap between commands find and
> > cpio in populate_sysroot function sysroot_stage_dir().
>
> So does this only happen to adwaita-icon-theme?  Is it a bug in
> install-sh, so impacts almost every automake-using package?  Or is it a
> bug in how adwaita-icon-theme is using install-sh?
>

This might actually be caused by my glorious hack:
https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/adwaita-icon-theme/0001-Run-installation-commands-as-shell-jobs.patch?h=master-next

There is a 'wait' after every '&', so not sure what goes wrong here.

Alex