Re: [gentoo-dev] ccache causing problems

2010-04-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:02:48AM +0200, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > it's just like any package failing with some gcc/linked/whatever flag, > you just don't stop using that flag where it works just because of one > package, nor do you stop using gcc. And for anybody that thinks they have a bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] ccache causing problems

2010-04-29 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le vendredi 30 avril 2010 à 00:16 +0200, Rémi Cardona a écrit : > Le 29/04/2010 09:06, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." a écrit : > > What actions would you suggest? > > Don't use ccache. We (speaking as a former gnome herd member) have had > countless unexplained bugs due to ccache. > > Now, the gnome proced

Re: [gentoo-dev] ccache causing problems

2010-04-29 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29-04-2010 22:16, Rémi Cardona wrote: > Le 29/04/2010 09:06, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." a écrit : >> What actions would you suggest? > > Don't use ccache. We (speaking as a former gnome herd member) have had > countless unexplained bugs due to ccache. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] ccache causing problems

2010-04-29 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 29/04/2010 09:06, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." a écrit : > What actions would you suggest? Don't use ccache. We (speaking as a former gnome herd member) have had countless unexplained bugs due to ccache. Now, the gnome procedure for build failures is to ask users to first disable distcc and ccache befo

Re: [gentoo-dev] ccache causing problems

2010-04-29 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:48:28AM +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 4/29/10 9:41 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:06:51AM +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > >> What actions would you suggest? > > Have your user do a binary search of the ccache dir to find which cach

Re: [gentoo-dev] ccache causing problems

2010-04-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:48:28 +0200 "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > > ccache itself hasn't been the problem, but unreliable hardware has. > > Provably by removing the corrupt cache files, then running with > > ccache a few more times, and having everything work perfectly. > > I see. However, I'd cons

Re: [gentoo-dev] ccache causing problems

2010-04-29 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 4/29/10 9:41 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:06:51AM +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: >> What actions would you suggest? > Have your user do a binary search of the ccache dir to find which cache > file is causing the problem, by restoring from his backup then renaming >

Re: [gentoo-dev] ccache causing problems

2010-04-29 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:06:51AM +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > What actions would you suggest? Have your user do a binary search of the ccache dir to find which cache file is causing the problem, by restoring from his backup then renaming half the directories each time. Then tie that to wh

[gentoo-dev] ccache causing problems

2010-04-29 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
I've just seen two serious problems with ccache in a short period of time. In both, webkit seems to be somehow involved (it has a complex build process). See and . I'm afraid we probably ca