[kde-freebsd] automoc or gcc

[Lawrence Stewart]

On 11/29/11 16:27, David Naylor wrote:
> On Monday, 28 November 2011 02:32:00 Lawrence Stewart wrote:
>> On 11/26/11 10:19, ajtiM wrote:
>>> Is it a bug on  automoc or gcc still "alive", please?,
>>> It happened three times on my new installed FreeBSD 9.0 RC-2 during
>>> building KDE 4. Two times stopped when I built  kde4-workspace and once
>>> in kdelibs4.
>>>
>>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276461
>>
>> I'm still hitting this problem on my 8-STABLE work desktop with a ports
>> tree csuped on 25 Nov.
>>
>> root at lstewart# uname -a
>> FreeBSD lstewart.caia.swin.edu.au 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #9: Sat
>> Nov 26 11:49:29 EST 2011     root at lstewart:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DESKTOP
>>    amd64
>>
>> I decided to "pkg_delete -af ; rm -rf /usr/local/*" and rebuild ports
>> over the weekend. "portmaster -d x11/kde4" will just randomly hang
>> running automoc4 while building kde ports.
>
> This is an old, intermittent, problem.  There is a deadlock somewhere (kernel,
> libc, qt, automoc).  One way to (potentially) avoid this is to run with
> DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS=yes for the affected ports.

Tried that. Worked a bit, but about 5 of the kde ports just wouldn't 
work no mater what combination of things I tried.

> The patch at the above mentioned bug report has solved the problem for me (for
> reference: https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=61311).
>
> A fix is in the works and will come in the form of automoc being integrated
> into cmake.

Thanks for the confirmation. I thought that given the age of the bug it 
might have been addressed already but clearly not. It weird that this is 
the first time I've ever hit the problem before, but oh well.

Cheers,
Lawrence