Re: [Libreoffice] "random" build failures in sfx2/sdi/sfxitems.sdi

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 05:48:54PM +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:58 AM, lionel@mamane.lu <lionel@mamane.lu> wrote:

> > There seems to be a failure in sfx2/sdi/sfxitems.sdi
> > (see attachment and
> > http://tinderbox.libreoffice.org/cgi-bin/gunzip.cgi?tree=MASTER&full-log=1323593401.28011#err677

> Any reason why you are using the huge full-log instead of the brief log?
> http://tinderbox.libreoffice.org/cgi-bin/gunzip.cgi?tree=MASTER&brief-log=1323593401.28011#err677

I thought the brief log was the same as the contents of the "email to
committers" and I couldn't make sense of that. That's why I went to
http://tinderbox.l.o in the first place.

> > BTW, it took about 20 minutes for the full log to arrive at
> > http://tinderbox.libreoffice.org/MASTER/status.html; any reason for
> > such a significant delay?

> The cronjob that regenerates the page

Ah, it is a cronjob, I see.

> is only run every 15 minutes or so. I don't consider it a
> "significant delay" when a build takes 2½-3 hours...

From the POV of a committer that gets the "you broke the build" mail
and would like to investigate it, it can feel long (it did for me).

Besides, a build takes 2.5-3 hours is not true:

Linux-Gentoo-x86_64_2-no-moz_no-binfilter had several successful
builds in 17-18 minutes.

MacOSX-Intel_1-built_no-moz_on_10.6.8: several at 18-19 minutes, but
then an outlier at 105 minutes.


In general *failed* builds can be _much_ shorter than successful
builds if the error is early... And failed builds is the logs you want
to see :) The tinderbox I was interested in (Linux-x86-64_8-SLED11)
has a rather high variability in build time:

25, 33, 145, 41, 32, 37, 26, 154, 183, 96, 88, 100, 45, 102, 22, 137, ...


-- 
Lionel