Re: [sdcc-devel] sdcc 3.4.0 rc2

[Maarten B. <sou...@ds...>]

Ok, finally some luck. Today derna failed again, but a manual restart ran
everything fine. And the others also passed. So I was able to create the
RC2 :)

Maarten

>
>
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Maarten Brock wrote:
>
>> Well, I'm not sure it is a bug, but I can't create the linux i386 and
>> windows 32 bit release candidates from the snapshots because derna again
>> is not willing to build them. And I have no clue why it suddenly failed
>> again. I don't think I really changed anything. And I've restarted the
>> build on derna many times since.
>>
>> Maarten
>
> There have recently been failures across much of the DCF, including derna.
> In all of the systems that I have checked, subversion is frequently
> encountering errors checking out files from the Sourceforge repository
> (either "Unable to connect to repository" or "Network connection closed
> unexpectedly"). Since multiple computers around the world are having the
> same connection problems, I think this is a problem on Sourceforge's end.
>
> The script that starts the snapshot build process will try up to three
> times to checkout the sdcc-build tree. It might be useful to insert a
> delay into the script so that if there is a failure, it does not
> immediately try again (and immediately fail again). The other trees
> (sdcc-extra, sdcc-web, and sdcc) are checked out at various points by
> makefiles, and don't have any error retry recovery logic at all (this is
> handled in sdcc-build/lib/fetch.mk) so depending on which part fails you
> may end up with a complete package but without any regression testing, a
> partial package, or an empty package.
>
> I'm behind on a number of my other commitments, so while I'd like to make
> the checkout process in the snapshot builds more robust, it probably won't
> be very soon. At the moment my best suggestion is just to retry the build.
> Either Sourceforge's infrastructure problem will be fixed or you might be
> lucky with successful checkouts (as can be seen on the snapshot page,
> there are still successful builds, so this isn't just a forlorn hope).
>
>    Erik
>
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