Re: [Ltib] Build breaks after using ltib -m clean

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Mattias,

I'll need to track down this version to see what this error means.

In the mean time, rather than running the distclean you could remove the
merge package with:

$ ./ltib -p merge -m clean 

Also if you change anything in a merge directory and re-run ltib it
should notice and re-make that package (adjusting the target files).

The potential problem with not doing distclean (especially on older
versions) is that potentially a new preconfig can trigger an
incompatible platform so unless a full rebuild is done you'd run into
problems.  Also you need to watch out for other dependencies that should
but don't trigger rebuilds (depending on your point of view).  For
example if changing a preconfig changed a toolchain CFLAG then a full
rebuild should (and I think will) be triggered.  So apart from the
obvious rebuilds sometimes less obvious ones may occur (LTIB will print
out why it's re-building usually).

Regards, Stuart

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:43 +0100, Mattias Boström wrote:
> We're using ltib 6.4.1 (1.252.2.1)
> 
> We use clean to get rid of things from the merge directory for instance.
> If we use distclean instead we would have to rebuild the kernel and
> all which takes some time. But you recommend that approach anyway
> maybe?
> 
> Regards,
> Mattias
> 
> 
> 2008/2/24, Stuart Hughes <address@hidden>:
> > Hi Mattias,
> >
> > I don't have copies of the ISO release BSPs so I can't be sure which
> > version this is.  Can you do a: ./ltib --version and that would narrow
> > it down.
> >
> > Generally speaking it's better to do a distclean first as this puts ltib
> > back to its pristine state.  -m clean only de-populates the root
> > filesystem (does rpm -e on all the packages).
> >
> > Regards, Stuart
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 15:46 +0100, Mattias Boström wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We are using ltib-mpc5200-20070203 binary distro from Freescale.
> > > Everything works fine except when I do ./ltib -m clean followed by
> > > ./ltib --batch --preconfig <myconfig>.
> > > If I do ./ltib -m distclean instead it works.
> > > The output from ltib is
> > > f_buildrpms() returned an error, exiting
> > >
> > > Started: Thu Feb 21 15:42:37 2008
> > > Ended:   Thu Feb 21 15:43:44 2008
> > > Elapsed: 67 seconds
> > >
> > > Build Failed
> > >
> > > Exiting on error or interrupt
> > >
> > > It's line 437 in my ltib. Is it something wrong with ltib or rpm? If I
> > > compile again everything seems to work. So I'm not sure it's an actual
> > > error or just a false warning.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Mattias
> > >
> > >
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