Re: Unending item build

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

Hello Matthias,

> On 8 Jun 2026, at 12:58, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to warm up an old problem...perhaps I found something like a
> solution.
> 
> The original problem is rather old - it dates from 2025-01-15. It still
> can be found here:
> https://marc.info/?l=ipfire-development&m=173691503411708
> 
> Once in a while I experienced the same problem like Jon - building
> stopped suddenly: "./make.sh build  goes into a loop and builds an item
> forever." And it doesn't matter which item. Either the counter kept
> running indefinitely, or it stopped displaying anything at all.
> 
> That was pretty annoying. No errors, nothing in the logs. After stopping
> the build with CTRL-C and restarting the whole build, usually everything
> ran through and worked again as if nothing had happened.
> 
> The last message often was just "make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/lfs'"
> and that was all.
> 
> Lastly I was thinking it might have something to do with counters.
> So I changed "while sleep 1" to "while sleep 2" in 'make.sh'. Nothing more.
> 
> Since then buildings are running without stopping anymore...
> 
> Did anyone had similar problems?

Very rarely. I think I have seen it before, but I cannot reproduce it at all.

I am happy to remove the timer entirely because it would be sufficient to see the build time after the package has finished building.

Would anyone be opposed to that?

-Michael

> Best
> Matthias
> 
>