[yocto] Recent build issues.

[Xu, Jiajun]

> On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 14:08 -0800, Flanagan, Elizabeth wrote:
>> Next,  the following bugs have been making it difficult to track down
>> build failures:
>> 
>> Sanity Test Boot test returns invalid results.
>> http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611
> 
> Fixes for #611, #612 and some other issues I found are merged into master.
> Sanity tests are now working locally for me at least.
> 
>> Sanity tests do not always kill QEMU once timeout is reached
>> http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595
> 

I tried to reproduce the bug before, but never seen such issue on my local machine. Meanwhile, when I was checking the log on autobuilder, I found QEMU was actually killed. I will add some check code and report error when qemu is not killed.

> This is not fixed yet and we need to sort that as its hurting the autobuilder.
> 
>> There are also sanity test failures in a few images:
>> 
>> qemuarm poky-image-sato
>> qemuarm poky-image-minimal
>> qemumips poky-image-sato
>> 
>> mips seems to have run poky-image-minimal ok, but with Bug #611, I
>> can't be sure that is the case and I doubt it's actually the case.
>> My inclination is that there is an issue with arm and mips builds
>> that should be looked at.
> 
> Also, qemux86 was broken until a fix I pushed a few minutes ago
> (kernel was missing IDE support and wouldn't boot in qemu).
> 
> It looks like the new version of opkg we've upgraded to fixing certain
> meta-toolchain corruption issues has some other new characteristics
> such as refusing to install overlapping files. This is good but its
> exposed bugs (and why isn't rpm showing this?).
> 
> There is currently an issue with that when building meta-toolchain and
> poky-image-lsb that I know of. Patches to fix these bugs welcome (and
> bugs need filing).
> 
>> - PPC is broken.
>> 
>> PPC is having serious issues that seem to revolve around
>> linux-yocto-2.6.37. Bruce I believe is working on this. Can anyone
>> give an update around where this stands?
> 
> Bruce pushed a patch to disable -Os usage. If this isn't showing up in
> the next round of autobuilds, we'll have to figure out why it isn't getting applied.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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Best Regards,
Jiajun