I am not talking about my own layer or recipe. It happens even when I run the demo QEMU/beaglebone builds. (I just download poky, and make NO modifications)
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Nicolas Dechesne < nicolas.deche...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Jerry Lian <jerry.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So according to what you said: the build will fail no matter what. > > But that is not my observation: my build succeed eventually (but you just > > need to rerun many times)!!! > > ah. sorry, i missed that part. So then it's probably a bug in the > recipe, missing dependency or something along these lines. It would be > legit to report this bug then. > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Nicolas Dechesne > > <nicolas.deche...@linaro.org> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Jerry Lian <jerry.l...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > I am not sure whether it is a bug or an error: > >> > * Quite often, bitbake will fail before finishing, with message like: > >> > ... > >> > task failed with exit code 1... > >> > * But if you rerun bitbake, it will continue to build. > >> > * So sometimes I have to rerun many times for finish one build ---- > >> > annoying! > >> > (by the way, my CPU can run 16 threads) > >> > > >> > Any idea to clear this annoying bug? > >> > >> it's not a bug. bitbake is using parallel tasks a lot. At any time it > >> is running N tasks. When one task fails, it will wait for N-1 ongoing > >> tasks to finish, and then stops. > >> > >> If you restart again, it will likely try N new tasks again, and the > >> same task that failed, will fail again, it will wait for N-1 tasks to > >> complete. > >> > >> if you do that several times, you will end up in a situation where > >> the only task that can run is the 'failing' one, so it will try 1 task > >> and fail immediately. > >> > >> > thanks. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > yocto mailing list > >> > yocto@yoctoproject.org > >> > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > >> > > > > > >
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