[yocto] build failure on current

[Evade Flow]

> Is it definitely tar that's the problem or gzip? ...

Oh! Didn't even think of that. :-% Looks like it's gzip:

evadeflow% gzip -d perl-5.14.2.tar.gz

gzip: perl-5.14.2.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error


Nice find!  I'll see about updating my gzip...


On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Friday 28 September 2012 11:53:53 Evade Flow wrote:
>> > > Erm... that *specific* bit prints nothing when pasted into a file and
>> > > executed. (Is it really supposed to?)
>> >
>> > No, but the rest of the script (the bit following the blank line that
>> > you've omitted) is...
>>
>> My bad, sorry. (I really need to read more carefully.) Here's what I get
>> when I add the missing lines:
>>
>> evadeflow% cat > temp.sh
>> #!/bin/sh
>> needtar=1
>> TARVERSION=`tar --version | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 4`
>> float_test() {
>>      echo | awk 'END { exit ( !( '"$1"')); }'
>> }
>>
>> # Tar version 1.24 and onwards handle overwriting symlinks correctly
>> # but earlier versions do not; this needs to work properly for sstate
>> float_test "$TARVERSION > 1.23" && needtar="0"
>> echo $needtar
>> evadeflow% chmod +x temp.sh
>> evadeflow% ./temp.sh
>> 1
>>
>> So... it correctly determines that it needs to build tar, but... the built
>> tar can't unpack the tarball from CPAN:
>>
>> evadeflow% wget http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.14.2.tar.gz
>> --2012-09-28 11:46:13--  http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.14.2.tar.gz
>> Resolving usaprox1.lightning.com... 10.102.184.7
>> Connecting to usaprox1.lightning.com|10.102.184.7|:8080... connected.
>> Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>> Length: 15223598 (15M) [application/x-gzip]
>> Saving to: `perl-5.14.2.tar.gz'
>>
>> 100%[================================================================>]
>> 15,223,598  62.2M/s   in 0.2s
>>
>> 2012-09-28 11:46:13 (62.2 MB/s) - `perl-5.14.2.tar.gz' saved
>> [15223598/15223598]
>>
>> evadeflow% ./poky-git/build/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin/tar xf
>> perl-5.14.2.tar.gz
>>
>> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
>> ./poky-git/build/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin/tar: Child returned status
>> 1 ./poky-git/build/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin/tar: Error is not
>> recoverable: exiting now
>>
>>
>> Weird. Anyway, I have a workaround, so it's not a big deal--especially given
>> that Ubuntu 10.04 isn't officially supported.  I'm happy to run any other
>> tests you can think of to hunt down the cause of this (I've got a pretty
>> fast build mchine now), but I totally understand if you've got bigger fish
>> to fry at the moment...
>
> Is it definitely tar that's the problem or gzip? This would suggest gzip:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=3443
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> --
>
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre