[LLVMdev] buildbot failure in LLVM on ppc64le-sanitizer

[Jay Foad]

Hi,

My New Year's resolution is to complain (constructively) whenever I
get a spurious build failure email from a buildbot. For new or
infrequent contributors especially, they can be extremely confusing
and unnecessarily alarming.

This one below is the first build ever attempted by the builder, so
how on earth can it have come up with a meaningful blame list? And in
any case, surely we should only get emailed when something breaks,
i.e. on a transition from green to red? In this case there was no
previous build whatsoever, let alone a successful one.

Thanks,
Jay.

On 12 January 2015 at 19:54,  <llvm.buildmaster at lab.llvm.org> wrote:
> The Buildbot has detected a new failure on builder ppc64le-sanitizer while building llvm.
> Full details are available at:
>  http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/ppc64le-sanitizer/builds/0
>
> Buildbot URL: http://lab.llvm.org:8011/
>
> Buildslave for this Build: ppc64le-sanitizer
>
> Build Reason: scheduler
> Build Source Stamp: [branch trunk] 225670
> Blamelist: ab,abataev,alexfh,artagnon,benlangmuir,chandlerc,chapuni,compnerd,dexonsmith,djasper,dsanders,ehsan,eugenis,foad,gribozavr,hfinkel,jhibbits,jkolek,joerg,majnemer,matze,nathan,rafael,rdivacky,rksimon,rsmith,rtrieu,sanjoy,seurer,spatel,timurrrr,tomatabacu,tstellar
>
> BUILD FAILED: failed annotate
>
> sincerely,
>  -The Buildbot