Tinderbox quirks

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:30:34PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 15:10 +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > > > - phase 2 build still goes on even if phase 1 has failed. Specially
> > > >   for ports which takes seven days to compile, this is a waste of
> > > >   time.
> > > 
> > > This is by design.  The phase 2 build is there to catch transient build
> > > problems that may have occurred in phase 1.  A patch to conditionally
> > > disable phase 2 would be entertained.
> > 
> > What kind of transient build errors are you thinking about?
> 
> ccache errors relating to NFS, coredumps, etc.  On my i386 box on which
> I use NFS, phase 2 comes in very handy.

If it are these kind of errors, shouldn't phase 2 then not only be
started when phase 1 somehow fails? Doing it a second time for "just
in case something went wrong in the first run" sounds like such a
waste of time then if it went right the first time.

Unless of course Phase 2 does do something else than phase 1.

Edwin

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