WAF 2.x upgrade status
Alexander Bokovoy
ab at samba.org
Fri Jul 6 06:11:26 UTC 2018
On pe, 06 heinä 2018, Martin Schwenke via samba-technical wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 21:32:37 +0300, Alexander Bokovoy via
> samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > On to, 05 heinä 2018, Alexander Bokovoy via samba-technical wrote:
> > > On to, 05 heinä 2018, Amitay Isaacs wrote:
> > [...]
> > [...]
> > [...]
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure what the correct thing to do is. Did you change the bin
> > > > directory explicitly? Or did that change happen automatically with
> > > > waf-2.0?
> > > It is result of unification. waf 2.0 has now 'top' and 'out' to point to
> > > source and binary build directories. We also use 'top' to find out where
> > > buildtools are, so end result is that out is defined as $top/bin.
> > >
> > > It seems to play well with lib/* libraries.
> > >
> > > > If it's not too much trouble, then it's easier to do sub-directory
> > > > builds (e.g. do tdb or talloc build for testing) and discard them
> > > > without having to touch the top-level build.
> > > I'll look what could be done to preserve this use case.
> > I've got a green run!
> > https://gitlab.com/samba-team/devel/samba/pipelines/25198995
> >
> > This patchset does not need additional patches for ctdb to find test
> > scripts as I restored previous defaults of build dir being 'bin'
> > everywhere.
> >
> > However, the patchset still fails full autobuild on Fedora 28. The
> > failure I have is that ctdb test fails on F28:
> >
> > *FAILED* tests/eventscripts/10.interface.multi.001.sh
> >
> > while it passes in Gitlab runners (and on sn-devel, I'm sure). This
> > looks like a genuine issue Martin was going to look into.
>
> Sorry for not replying earlier. I had seen it earlier, implicitly
> fixed it in a branch, forgot what the problem was and then Amitay fixed
> it yesterday:
>
> commit a30ac853ff9bca023c53ad98775eabb23156c566 (origin/master, origin/HEAD)
> Author: Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu Jul 5 13:40:33 2018 +1000
>
> ctdb-tests: Avoid segfault by initializing logging
>
> This is in addition to af697008531.
>
> Signed-off-by: Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com>
>
> :-)
>
> This is now in master.
>
> It looks like gcc 8.0 (or similar) now makes it a run-time error to
> assign into a static const variable (or similar). We've been assigning
> to DEBUGLEVEL for years in CTDB without necessarily calling
> setup_logging() and the compiler has let us get away with it. However,
> the latest gcc puts the data in a protected (read-only?) area and
> the program crashes when you assign into that area.
Thanks for the explanation. I did not rebase yesterday night but a local run
this morning succeeded:
548/548 tests passed
Glad this one is solved too.
--
/ Alexander Bokovoy
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