[llvm-dev] Self-hosting bots noise
Renato Golin via llvm-dev
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon Nov 9 04:32:23 PST 2015
Hi David/Galina,
FYI, I found one big reason why self-hosting bots fail long after the
offending commit is tested: dirty builds.
In a dirty build (no make clean), when a file X is changed that breaks
file Y, the bot will only accuse the failure when file Y is changed,
too, so that stage1 with modified X will compile file Y, and break.
At hindsight, it's obvious. But I hadn't connected the dots before... :/
I'm moving all my self-hosting bots to clean builds and will be
relying solely on ccache to make stage1 fast. This shall help with
"breakages not on the blame list" problems.
cheers,
--renato
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