Tinderbox failure, Linux-x86-64 at 8-SLED11, MASTER, last success: 2013-02-28 07:11:32

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 02/28/2013 10:47 AM, Matúš Kukan wrote:
> On 28 February 2013 10:13, kendy at suse.cz <kendy at suse.cz> wrote:
>> [build CPY] CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl.udkapi.done
>> [build CPY] CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl.offapi.done
>> [build CUS] odk/odkcommon/include
>> [build CPY] CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/configure.pl
>> [build CPY] CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/setsdkenv_unix
>> [build CPY] CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/setsdkenv_unix.sh.in
>> cp: cannot create directory `/local/home/tinderbox/master/workdir/unxlngx6.pro/CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl/com': File exists
>> [build CPY] CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/setsdkenv_unix.csh.in
>> make[1]: *** [/local/home/tinderbox/master/workdir/unxlngx6.pro/CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl.offapi.done] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>> make: *** [build] Error 2
>
> Can't cp just copy files which are not there into the directory?
> What we are doing there is
> mkdir -p CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl
> cp -rf udkapi/com CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl
> cp -rf offapi/com CustomTarget/odk/odkcommon/idl <- fails ?

It might be a race cp doesn't handle gracefully when it sees a dir does 
not yet exist but does already exist when it then tries to create it, as 
those two cp calls above are probably done in parallel.

Stephan