Bug 346567

Summary:	sys-kernel/linux-headers will silently fail if unifdef crashes
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	VERIFIED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Build log

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-11-23 20:32:54 UTC

Don't ask me what's really going on in the tinderbox for this to have happened, let's just say that trying to get gold to work was definitely a mistake. On the other hand, it really shouldn't happen that a botched build of unifdef can cause all this trouble. It installs a number of empty files as headers, with the result that all the definition coming from linux-headers are missing.

Can we add at least a bit of safety check to ensure that there is some content in the headers before replacing them?

Thanks,
Diego

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-11-23 20:33:35 UTC

Created attachment 255229 [details]
Build log

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-11-23 22:21:43 UTC

ive sent a patch upstream.  not planning on adding the patch to all the older ebuilds though since this is unlikely to occur.

Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-11-23 22:37:40 UTC

Thanks.