[meta-xilinx] tools: app.tcl exits 0 regardless of build failure

[Mike Looijmans]

On 05-06-17 14:12, Jean-Francois Dagenais wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 2, 2017, at 16:03, Manjukumar Harthikote Matha <manjukumar.harthikote-matha at xilinx.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes we are aware of this issue, this will happen only if you have built the firmware successfully before. If it is a clean project it would fail during do_deploy mechanism.
> 
> This depends on a clean state, something that is not respectful of Yocto's normal behaviour. Plus it falsely fail at do_deploy, which is completely misleading.
> 
> In the short term, as Mike suggests, the compile step could start by removing the output from it's workdir, then test it's presence at the end. I will see about making a patch for this.
> 


If the task only fails at do_deploy, then Yocto would only retry that 
step, without calling do_compile again because that did not fail, and 
keep failing at deploy over and over again until some frustrated human 
intervenes and clears the sstate cache or in some other way makes the 
compile re-run.

In other words, it really needs fixing.

-- 
Mike Looijmans


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