From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B473BBAF for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:46:29 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhMEAAfYJEpQRFuwWWdsb2JhbACYBwEWFQS3b4QLBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,291,1241388000"; d="scan'208";a="30373160" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 02 Jun 2009 16:46:29 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MBVFz-0005P8-Sj for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:46:27 +0100 Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:46:27 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Strange, occasional build failure with ocamlmklib / ranlib Message-ID: <20090602144627.GA20574@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocamlmklib:01 ranlib:01 ocamlfind:01 ocamlc:01 mli:01 ocamlfind:01 ocamlc:01 ocamlopt:01 ocamlmklib:01 cmo:01 libs:01 cmx:01 libs:01 ranlib:01 bug:01 I just want to post this here in case it rings a bell with anyone: ocamlfind ocamlc -c guestfs.mli ocamlfind ocamlc -c guestfs.ml ocamlfind ocamlopt -c guestfs.ml ocamlmklib -o mlguestfs guestfs_c.o guestfs_c_actions.o guestfs.cmo -L../src/.libs -lguestfs ocamlmklib -o mlguestfs guestfs_c.o guestfs_c_actions.o guestfs.cmx -L../src/.libs -lguestfs ranlib: './libmlguestfs.a': No such file There's no other error visible. The error is intermittent, and fairly rare. Usually if we just run the build again it succeeds. We've seen the same bug happening on 3.09.3 and on 3.11.1+rc0. There are more detailed build logs here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502309 Anyone got any ideas at all? Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat