[U-Boot] Fwd: Parallel build is broken

From: Alex Kiernan <alex.kiernan@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Fwd: Parallel build is broken
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 09:45:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO5Uq5ROo1fkP8JE3oZ9VxNrQBi7_AS0uX9X+VXx2cY=2+pfiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VeXZ8mhJ9_eS9duOc0W6Xd+oX2LhZG_azs_FWW7WAZ2-g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 3:54 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 5:50 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 5:00 PM Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 03:42:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > >
> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > > > From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
> > > > Date: Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 3:40 PM
> > > > Subject: Parallel build is broken
> > > > To: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
> > > > Cc: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > U-Boot can't be build with make -j16.
> > > >
> > > > Second pass passes fine.
> > > >
> > > > Didn't investigate myself and probably will not have time (near to
> > > > vacation time for me).
> > > > So, please, fix it before release.
> > > >
> > > > sh: echo: I/O error
> > > > make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:278: common/malloc_simple.o] Error 1
> > > > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > > >  CC      drivers/serial/ns16550.o
> > > >  CC      drivers/spi/spi.o
> > > >  CC      cmd/mmc.o
> > > >  CC      drivers/watchdog/tangier_wdt.o
> > > >  CC      drivers/serial/serial_intel_mid.o
> > > >  CC      cmd/net.o
> > > >  CC      drivers/usb/common/common.o
> > > >  CC      arch/x86/lib/acpi.o
> > > >  LD      drivers/timer/built-in.o
> > > >  CC      arch/x86/lib/acpi_table.o
> > > >  CC      drivers/video/console_normal.o
> > > > make: *** [Makefile:1377: common] Error 2
> > > > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > >
> > > What build target (and O= or not?) is this with?  Thanks!
> >
> > make clean && make edison_defconfig && make -j16
> >
> > gcc (Debian 8.2.0-4) 8.2.0
> > Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> So, first time it's being built, consequent runs usually failed.
>

I've seen this problem - building inside a VMware VM. I've always
found that logging out and back in appears to fix it, so possibly
something related to the session... I've similarly failed to figure
out what the problem is as it comes and goes.

-- 
Alex Kiernan