Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 18:46:41 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Toolchain <freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A head buildworld race visible in the ci.freebsd.org build history Message-ID: <BE644819-399A-4C4C-89C9-91283EB768D2@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <07C8E943-BDED-4912-8856-0ECCED7014A3@yahoo.com> References: <74EAD684-0E0B-453A-B746-156777CF604A@yahoo.com> <1884103f-d1fb-aca6-2edd-062e11d05617@FreeBSD.org> <BCD47660-EE57-490C-90E8-83FC3B720B09@yahoo.com> <CAKBkRUxAfXi81yw93ejcJVpXQ0JetaACFtuS8tFprQvMeWx75A@mail.gmail.com> <c371a5d3-3c21-bb3a-29c0-974feb2baf5a@FreeBSD.org> <07C8E943-BDED-4912-8856-0ECCED7014A3@yahoo.com>
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On 2018-Jun-18, at 6:03 PM, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote: > On 2018-Jun-18, at 4:08 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> On 6/18/2018 3:27 PM, Li-Wen Hsu wrote: >>> ranlib -D libpcap.a >>> ranlib: fatal: Failed to open 'libpcap.a' >> >> Where is this error even coming from? It's not in the usr.bin/ar code >> and ranlib does not cause it. >> >> # ranlib -D uh >> ranlib: warning: uh: no such file > > A more complete sequence is (with some > other text mixed in, as in where I got > the text from on ci.freebsd.org): > > --- libvgl.a --- > building static vgl library > ar -crD libvgl.a `NM='nm' NMFLAGS='' lorder main.o simple.o bitmap.o text.o mouse.o keyboard.o | tsort -q` > --- all_subdir_lib/libsysdecode --- > ranlib -D libsysdecode.a > --- all_subdir_lib/libvgl --- > ranlib -D libvgl.a > ranlib: fatal: Failed to open 'libvgl.a' > --- all_subdir_lib/libsysdecode --- > ranlib: fatal: Failed to open 'libsysdecode.a' > --- all_subdir_lib/libvgl --- > *** [libvgl.a] Error code 70 > > So, in essence, > > ar -crD libvgl.a `NM='nm' NMFLAGS='' lorder main.o simple.o bitmap.o text.o mouse.o keyboard.o | tsort -q` > ranlib -D libvgl.a > ranlib: fatal: Failed to open 'libvgl.a' > > It is not obvious to me that the "Failed to open" means > that there was "no such file". Might there be some other > form of "Failed to open" for a file that does exist from > the ar at least having created its output .a file? > Also, if what varies is the head system version (for failing vs. working) and what is the same is running a 11.1R jail, then it would seem to be the underlying head system software in each that matters for the ar -> ranlib sequence behavior, but not 11.1R's ar or ranlib or 11.1R's libraries indirectly involved --nor in head's ar or ranlib (or their indirections). head's: unused. The only parts of head that could be involved are parts that the 11.1R jail does not avoid. This suggests more basic infrastructure in head to me. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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