[poky] do_fetch error with gcc-cross-initial_4.7

[Florin]

Trying to build something today and still takes forever and crashes at 
fetch. Looking at the gcc-4.7.inc I see it's still from git.
What would the resolution be for this issue?

Thank you

On 08/23/2012 06:35 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>
>
> On Thursday, August 23, 2012, Florin <flocirel at gmail.com 
> <mailto:flocirel at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > On 08/23/2012 10:29 AM, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 22/08/12 22:35, Florin wrote:
> >>>
> >>> ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL:
> >>> 
> 'git://github.com/mirrors/gcc.git;branch=gcc-4_7-branch;protocol=git 
> <http://github.com/mirrors/gcc.git;branch=gcc-4_7-branch;protocol=git>'.
> >>> Unable to fetch URL from any source.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> After the build stops with this error, retrying the bitbake command to
> >>> produce the rootfs fetches gcc successfully and gcc (and the rest 
> of the
> >>> packages) is compiled just fine.
> >>> Is there anybody else seeing this behavior?
> >>
> >> FWIW, over the last few days I have seen intermittent fetch failures
> >> from various packages that pull source from github; they pretty much
> >> always go away on the next attempt; I assume it's github's fault.
> >
> > Hi Tomas,
> > thanks for your answer. The problem I am seeing is that it always 
> behaves like this: in the stages of creating the rootfs it gets to the 
> fetching of gcc cross initial, this stalls a while (tens of minutes) 
> in which time bitbake fetches (all kind of native and target packages) 
> and compiles native packages and it throws an error at the point where 
> the dependency chain would have had gcc cross initial compiled and 
> ready to be used by other packages. After that, rerunning the bitbake 
> command to create the rootfs fetches successfully gcc and the build 
> finishes. So I am always seeing this behavior: first fetch fails, 
> second fetch works. Always like this, never had to try a third time to 
> fetch gcc. That is why I am not suspecting especially a problem with 
> github but rather the way bitbake tries the mirrors for gcc.
> >
>
> Git archive for gcc is in terabytes so it will take long time to fetch 
> it. I have sent a patch to switch back to Svn in src_URI
> That should avoid long delays in fetching gcc srcs
> > Thanks,
> > Florin
> >>
> >> Tomas
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