Bug 1179139 - Compiling programs on koji often fails if they rely on autogen
Summary: Compiling programs on koji often fails if they rely on autogen
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: autogen
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Lichvar
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-01-06 10:03 UTC by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
Modified: 2017-08-08 11:51 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-08-08 11:51:53 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 2015-01-06 10:03:26 UTC
Description of problem:
Compiling programs on koji often fails if they rely on autogen. 

How reproducible:
Submit ocserv package for building to koji machines.

Actual results:
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/8901/8538901/build.log

Note the error:
In file included from ocpasswd.c:34:0:
./ocpasswd-args.h:1:1: error: unterminated comment
 /*   -*- buffer-read-only: t -*- vi: set ro:
 ^

The auto-generated file is incorrect, as it has an unterminated comment which makes the compilation fail.

Expected results:
Builds should complete all the time.


Additional info:
I have not managed to reproduce that locally.

Comment 1 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 2015-01-06 10:38:38 UTC
I forgot to link to a successful compilation of the same source that failed above.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=602281

Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2015-01-09 16:35:19 UTC
To me it looks like a problem with parallel building, the compilation started before the ocpasswd-args.h file was fully generated. Building without smp_flags should fix that.

Bruce, do you think it would make sense to modify autogen to write to temporary files and rename them when they are complete?

Comment 3 Miroslav Lichvar 2015-01-09 16:39:19 UTC
The --disable-dependency-tracking option used in the Fedora %configure macro could be related to this too, I guess.

Comment 4 Bruce Korb 2015-01-12 16:21:47 UTC
(In reply to Miroslav Lichvar from comment #2)
> Bruce, do you think it would make sense to modify autogen to write to
> temporary files and rename them when they are complete?

It make sense, but it would not be very easy at all.
I go through a bunch of somersaults to be able to spin the
dependency tracking output and I'd need to create some similar
logic to do all the renames upon completion.  I think it
is far, far and away easier to just wait for autogen to finish
rather than just waiting for autogen to start.  The dependency
output is not created until the very end.  If you were to use
the generated dependencies, you would be depending on a stamp
file (sentinel) that is the last thing modified before completion.
The "stamp-opts" file created for autogen itself:

> $ cat stamp-opts
> # Makefile dependency file created by:          -*- Mode: Makefile -*-
> # /u/ROOT/usr/local/bin/autogen
> # with the following command line arguments:
> #   -L/u/bkorb/ag/ag/autoopts/tpl \
> #   -MFstamp-opts \
> #   -MP \
> #   opts.def
> AUTOGEN_stamp_opts_TList = \
>         opts.h \
>         opts.c
> 
> AUTOGEN_stamp_opts_SList = \
>         opts.def \
>         /u/bkorb/ag/ag/autoopts/tpl/options.tpl \
>         /u/bkorb/ag/ag/autoopts/tpl/optlib.tlib \
>         /usr/local/lib64/autogen/tpl-config.tlib \
>         /u/bkorb/ag/ag/autoopts/tpl/gpl.lic \
>         /u/bkorb/ag/ag/autoopts/tpl/opthead.tlib \
>         /u/bkorb/ag/ag/autoopts/tpl/optcode.tlib \
>         /u/bkorb/ag/ag/autoopts/tpl/optmain.tlib
> stamp-opts : $(AUTOGEN_stamp_opts_SList)
> 
> $(AUTOGEN_stamp_opts_TList) : stamp-opts
>         @:
> 
> .PHONY : clean-stamp-opts
> 
> clean-stamp-opts :
>         rm -f  $(AUTOGEN_stamp_opts_TList)
>         @-touch -t 199912312359 stamp-opts

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Comment 7 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 13:18:37 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase

Comment 8 Fedora End Of Life 2017-07-25 18:46:36 UTC
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Comment 9 Fedora End Of Life 2017-08-08 11:51:53 UTC
Fedora 24 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2017-08-08. Fedora 24 is
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