On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:11:39PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Multiple people have reported intermittent build failure in parallel
> building.
>
> Kever Yang reported this issue some time ago [1], but I could not
> get enough clue at that time.
>
> This time, Richard Purdie provided a full build log [2], which was
> very helpful for me to root-cause it.
>
> The cause of the problem is commit 0d982c585330 ("Makefile: add
> dependencies to regenerate u-boot.cfg when lost").
>
> That commit added the 'cfg' as the prerequisite of the 'all' target,
> so the parallel build tries to run it simultaneously, then regenerates
> a symlink while building objects.
>
> When u-boot.cfg is accidentally lost, let's rebuild it before
> descending into any subdirectories.
>
> Also, what is annoying is u-boot.cfg is currently regenerated every
> time since it depends on FORCE. We can get rid of all the prerequisites
> of u-boot.cfg because u-boot.cfg is rebuilt anyway as the byproduct of
> auto.conf when a user updates the .config file.
>
> [1] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2018-June/330341.html
> [2]
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/65/builds/160/steps/7/logs/step1b
>
> Fixes: 0d982c585330 ("Makefile: add dependencies to regenerate u-boot.cfg
> when lost")
> Reported-by: Kever Yang <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom
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