During the long pause in buildbot snapshots last month I got interested in
the snapshot builds.
I noticed that some of the platforms are being built daily although they have
not completed the build process successfully for 1-2 years, in some cases
never. It seems like a waste of CPU power and other resources to continue
compiling those platforms daily. The platforms should either be fixed or
their daily builds abandoned.
Most of the failures seem to be missing kernel config symbols, and those
don't get automagically fixed.
Below is a short summary of the 35 buildbot snapshot platforms:
24 platforms with daily builds ok during last week:
adm5120, ar7, ar71xx, atheros, au1000, brcm47xx, brcm63xx, cobalt, ep93xx,
etrax, gemini, ixp4xx, kirkwood, lantiq, mpc52xx, octeon, orion, ppc40x,
ppc44x, ramips, sibyte, uml, x86, xburst
2 abandoned platforms, no builds done (which is also ok):
olpc 24-Oct-2009, goldfish 10-Mar-2010
3 recent failures (in February 2012):
iop32x 9-Feb-2012 looks like a platform-specific error
rb532 12-Feb-2012 gcc version change: cc1: all warnings being treated as
errors
rdc 27-Feb-2012 kernel config symbols missing
4 ancient failures (2010 - July 2011):
at91 20-Mar-2011 kernel config symbols missing
avr32 1-Jul-2011 kernel config symbols missing
pxcab 4-Nov-2010 kernel config symbols missing
s3c24xx 13-Feb-2011 kernel config symbols missing
2 Never:
These have never completed a build succesfully, or at least it has not been
uploaded to the snapshot server:
ps3 kernel config symbols missing
ubicom32 ERROR: Missing site config for target "ubicom32-openwrt-linux-uclibc"
Developers might consider abandoning the daily builds of those ancient
failures, or maybe spend a few hours fixing the missing kernel config
symbols. It serves no purpose that buildbots crunch those platforms daily,
just to fail.
I made a patch for at91, but have not tested it any further in addition to
compiling the kernel.
https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2012-April/014897.html
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