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From: R Hill <dirtyepic.sk@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: confcache, final chance to ixnay it
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:58:05
Message-Id: dstn66$ala$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: confcache, final chance to ixnay it by Brian Harring
1 Brian Harring wrote:
2 > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:06:24PM -0600, R Hill wrote:
3 >> Well, i've been testing this on an x86 laptop and an x86_64 box over the
4 >> weekend. Good news is that when it works, it works well. Bad news is I've
5 >> yet to be able to get through an 'emerge -e world' without at least a dozen
6 >> build failures that resolve themselves when i clear the cache.
7 >
8 > Specific merge list would be wonderful... ;)
9
10 And hella long. ;) I'm working on a way to automate narrowing it down somewhat.
11
12 >> The errors
13 >> range between unresolved symbols to 'platform does not support (null)' to
14 >
15 > Err... that one I'd be very interested in.
16
17 I think that one was while building ruby...
18
19 > So... what features you got, and what sandbox version?
20
21 sandbox-1.2.17
22 FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache digest distlocks parallel-fetch prelink
23 sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict"
24 CONFCACHE_DIR="/var/cache/confcache"
25
26 also the same specs on the x86_64 box.
27
28 >> There are apparently a lot of broken configures out there.
29 >
30 > Not as many as you would think actually; just takes one to cause some
31 > issues though. My personal experience has been different from yours,
32 > but reports re: confcache I've been watching/weary about.
33
34 i did one bug report for cyrus-sasl breakage that i eventually tracked down to
35 being ruby's fault, but i didn't want to file any others since i really couldn't
36 report anything useful other than "$pkg is broked".
37
38 > Personally, any bug reports that come in with confcache enabled should
39 > have the confcache disabled imo; just the same as potentially whonky
40 > cflags, scale it back to ensure the problem is in the source, not in
41 > any bastardization's the users configuration has done to it.
42
43 agree here. i would go as far as to maybe print a message to that effect if the
44 build fails while FEATURES="confcache".
45
46 > Meanwhile, if you're getting failures up the ying yang and it's not
47 > tracked down, I'd state tabling the feature (or tagging massively
48 > hideous warnings regarding it) is required. Iirc, solar ran a
49 > full build with confcache enabled (believe it was 0.3.*), so input
50 > from him would be useful also for comparison.
51
52 damn, i don't want to hold this up, especially if no one else is having
53 troubles. i have a couple days off right now so i'll do some poking around and
54 see what i can come up with. i'll open a bug and assign to you if i figure
55 anything out.
56
57 thanks
58
59 --de.
60
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: confcache, final chance to ixnay it Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>