On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 04:27:06PM +0100, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 31.12.2019 16:05, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 10:33:45AM +0100, Branko Čibej wrote:
> >> The OpenBSD buildbot seems to have a 50% chance of failing due to a bus
> >> error deep inside the Ruby runtime (most likely caused by misaligned
> >> memory access). This makes rather less useful than it could be.
> >>
> >> I'm wondering if it would make sense to just skip building and testing
> >> the Ruby bindings there, and perhaps make a separate build configuration
> >> that tests just the Ruby bindings on OpenBSD.
> > The problem cannot happen during every run. AFAIK it occurs during
> > the build of Ruby itself, not the SVN ruby bindings build or tests.
> > And Ruby itself will only be recompiled if Makefile.svn is changed
> > or the system is rebooted (the build files live in a ramdisk).
>
> Oh ... I seem to have misunderstood the issue. So it's actually even
> worse and the tests are held hostage to a depenency build. Would there
> be a way to completely detach the building of dependencies from building
> and testing Subversion? E.g., the dependencies could be installed to a
> more presistent location and only rebuilt if their sources changed.
Honestly instead of working on that I'd rather put effort into fixing the
underlying Ruby issue.
Received on 2019-12-31 17:04:12 CET