[LLVMdev] Please fix the buildbots.

[Daniel Dunbar]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Nick Lewycky <nicholas at mxc.ca> wrote:
> Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>>
>> Just received this:
>>
>> The Buildbot has detected a new failure of llvm-ppc-linux on llvm.
>> Full details are available at:
>>  http://google1.osuosl.org:8011/builders/llvm-ppc-linux/builds/3229
>>
>> Buildbot URL: http://google1.osuosl.org:8011/
>>
>> Buildslave for this Build: nick1
>>
>> Build Reason: Build Source Stamp: 84759
>> Blamelist: ofv
>>
>> BUILD FAILED: failed compile
>>
>> Apparently the problem was a warning at configure time that is
>> interpreted as a failure by the buildbot.
>>
>> The mentioned svn revision is a change on docs/CMake.html which,
>> obviously, does not affect the build at all. On the past I received
>> multiple similar bogus messages.
>>
>> While the buildbots spit such nonsense it is reasonable to expect people
>> ignoring buildbot's nag messages.
>>
>
> I've asked Daniel Dunbar to increase the timeout on this machine. Every
> build which requires libLTO to be rebuilt will fail, but because it's doing
> an incremental build the later builds may succeed so long as libLTO doesn't
> change. It's flapping pretty nastily because of that.
>
> So Daniel, please take this as a reminder to *really* increase the timeout
> instead of just filing it away into your todo list :)

Sure, sure, blame me not all the people making LLVM fatter (err, maybe
that is also me)! :)

Timeout upped to 30m, let me know if you see this problem again.

 - Daniel