Re: Tinderbox failure, Linux-x86-64@8-SLED11, MASTER, last success: 2013-02-28 07:11:32

On 02/28/2013 10:47 AM, Matúš Kukan wrote:
> On 28 February 2013 10:13, kendy@suse.cz <kendy@suse.cz> wrote:
> > [build CPY] CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl.udkapi.done
> > [build CPY] CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl.offapi.done
> > [build CUS] odk/odkcommon/include
> > [build CPY] CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/configure.pl
> > [build CPY] CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/setsdkenv_unix
> > [build CPY] CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/setsdkenv_unix.sh.in
> > cp: cannot create directory 
> > `/local/home/tinderbox/master/workdir/unxlngx6.pro/CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl/com': File exists
> > [build CPY] CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/setsdkenv_unix.csh.in
> > make[1]: *** 
> > [/local/home/tinderbox/master/workdir/unxlngx6.pro/CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl.offapi.done] 
> > Error 1
> > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > make: *** [build] Error 2
>
> Can't cp just copy files which are not there into the directory?
> What we are doing there is
> mkdir -p CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl
> cp -rf udkapi/com CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl
> cp -rf offapi/com CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl <- fails ?

It might be a race cp doesn't handle gracefully when it sees a dir does 
not yet exist but does already exist when it then tries to create it, as 
those two cp calls above are probably done in parallel.

Stephan