[yocto] Annoying "rerun to fix" bug for bitbake: task failed, but rerun can fix it.

[Jerry Lian]

I am not talking about my own layer or recipe.
It happens even when I run the demo QEMU/beaglebone builds.
(I just download poky, and make NO modifications)




On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> On 8 November 2017 at 15:49, Jerry Lian <jerry.lian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am not sure whether it is a bug or an error:
>> * Quite often, bitbake will fail before finishing, with message like: ...
>> task failed with exit code 1...
>> * But if you rerun bitbake, it will continue to build.
>> * So sometimes I have to rerun many times for finish one build ----
>> annoying!
>> (by the way, my CPU can run 16 threads)
>>
>
> If you tell us what recipe is failing, and what the actual error is, then
> we may be able to help.  Generally this is a bug in the makefiles that the
> recipe is building and not a problem with Yocto itself.
>
> Ross
>
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