permission issues when running make

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

Thanks Magnus,
your explanation makes sense - in the past such issues would have been 
caught by the spec.gmk check; that explains why I've been able to fix 
the issue by re-running configure.

Maurizio



On 02/10/17 14:45, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2017-09-27 12:45, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> On a problematic repo I tried to compare the spec.gmk before/after 
>> the configure run - there's a difference which seems to be causing 
>> this issue:
>>
>> The buggy spec.gmk (which causes the permission issues) has this:
>>
>> BUILD_OUTPUT:=/w/master/build/linux-x86_64-normal-server-release
>> # Colon left out to be able to override IMAGES_OUTPUTDIR for 
>> bootcycle-images
>> SUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR=$(BUILD_OUTPUT)/support
>> BUILDTOOLS_OUTPUTDIR=$(BUILD_OUTPUT)/buildtools
>>
>> HOTSPOT_OUTPUTDIR=$(BUILD_OUTPUT)/hotspot
>> JDK_OUTPUTDIR=$(BUILD_OUTPUT)/jdk
>> IMAGES_OUTPUTDIR=$(BUILD_OUTPUT)/images
>> BUNDLES_OUTPUTDIR=$(BUILD_OUTPUT)/bundles
>> TESTMAKE_OUTPUTDIR=$(BUILD_OUTPUT)/test-make
>> MAKESUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR=$(BUILD_OUTPUT)/make-support
>>
>> while the new one has this:
>>
>> OUTPUTDIR := /w/master/build/linux-x86_64-normal-server-release
>> # Colon left out to be able to override IMAGES_OUTPUTDIR for 
>> bootcycle-images
>> SUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR=$(OUTPUTDIR)/support
>> BUILDTOOLS_OUTPUTDIR=$(OUTPUTDIR)/buildtools
>>
>> HOTSPOT_OUTPUTDIR=$(OUTPUTDIR)/hotspot
>> JDK_OUTPUTDIR=$(OUTPUTDIR)/jdk
>> IMAGES_OUTPUTDIR=$(OUTPUTDIR)/images
>> BUNDLES_OUTPUTDIR=$(OUTPUTDIR)/bundles
>> TESTMAKE_OUTPUTDIR=$(OUTPUTDIR)/test-make
>> MAKESUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR=$(OUTPUTDIR)/make-support
>>
>>
>> Seems like BUILD_OUTPUT was renamed into OUTPUTDIR ?
>>
>> Still, not 100% what's up.
>
> Unfortunately, the build logic that should detect if the spec.gmk is 
> out of date has not survived the forest consolidation. :-(
>
> I'm working on a fix, but I'm trying to get a proper solution and not 
> just a quick fix, so it'll take some time.
>
> There are several related weird/broken behaviors that appear when also 
> having closed source code present, such as "make reconfigure" will not 
> work, and that bootcycle builds will not work.
>
> /Magnus
>
>
> /Magnus
>
>
>>
>> Maurizio
>>
>>
>> On 27/09/17 11:24, David Holmes wrote:
>>> On 27/09/2017 8:19 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>>>> On 27/09/17 10:51, David Holmes wrote:
>>>>> On 27/09/2017 7:46 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I sometimes encounter this (consolidated repo only):
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ make
>>>>>> /usr/bin/tee: /bin/mkdir: /build.logcannot create directory 
>>>>>> ‘/make-support’: Permission denied: Permission denied
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /usr/bin/tee: /build.log: Permission denied
>>>>>> Building target 'default (exploded-image)' in configuration 
>>>>>> 'linux-x86_64-normal-server-release'
>>>>>> /w/lt/amber/dev/make/Init.gmk:291: recipe for target 'main' failed
>>>>>> make[1]: *** [main] Error 1
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This goes away if I do a full configure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why is the build attempting to create folders into '/' ?
>>>>>
>>>>> That suggests an empty variable is being found.
>>>>>
>>>>> Where are you running make from?
>>>> jdk toplevel folder.
>>>
>>> As in a repo top-level folder I assume?
>>>
>>>> After running
>>>>
>>>> sh configure ...
>>>>
>>>> and repeating same command, the issue goes away.
>>>>
>>>> The last time I got this I brought the repo over (rsaync) form 
>>>> another machine (which I used to do all the time even before, but 
>>>> never caused such issues).
>>>
>>> Did a configuration exist when you ran it? The output seems odd. If 
>>> I run with a config present the first thing I see is:
>>>
>>> Building target 'default (product-bundles test-bundles 
>>> docs-bundles)' in configuration 'linux-x64-open-debug'
>>>
>>> and if no config then:
>>>
>>> Error: No configurations found for 
>>> /export/users/dh198349/valhalla-master.
>>> Please run 'bash configure' to create a configuration.
>>>
>>> Anything odd set in your environment?
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>> Maurizio
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>>> Maurizio
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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