On 03/31/2015 08:45 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
On 03/31/2015 06:02 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
Since the Kconfig conversion, some developers have reported that Kbuild sometimes fails completely at random. According to the error reports, it seems to occur for any target board, but only on very fast computers.
The log message for the fail case is like this:
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../arch//cpu/u-boot.lds', needed by `u-boot.lds'. Stop.
It looks like the top config.mk has not been included for *some* reason, and $(ARCH) has been left blank.
I suspect "autoconf_is_current" is not working in some situation.
This commit moves the definition of ARCH, CPU, SOC, etc. to the top Makefile, so they are surely set.
This doesn't solve the issue for me, although it improves the chance of success and changes the error I get.
With and without this patch, I ran:
CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- ./MAKEALL rpi_2
... until whichever of success/fail had the fewest "hits" had at least 5 "hits".
Without this patch, the build failed 6 out of 11 runs with:
Stephen is so fast, saved me time to setup and test.
Let me know if I need to run test from my side.
York