| Message ID | 20240111125543.1573473-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org |
|---|---|
| State | New |
| Headers | show |
| Series | .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml: Work around htags bug when environment is large | expand |
On 11/1/24 13:55, Peter Maydell wrote: > Sometimes the CI "pages" job fails with a message like this from > htags: > > $ htags -anT --tree-view=filetree -m qemu_init -t "Welcome to the QEMU sourcecode" > htags: Negative exec line limit = -371 > > This is due to a bug in hflags where if the environment is too large it > falls over: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-global/2024-01/msg00000.html > > This happens to us because GitLab CI puts the commit message of the > commit under test into the CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE and/or CI_COMMIT_TAG_MESSAGE > environment variables, so the job will fail if the commit happens to > have a verbose commit message. > > Work around the htags bug by unsetting these variables while running > htags. > > Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org > Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2080 > --- > Cc'ing stable purely because it's probably useful to avoid flaky > CI jobs when testing stable branches too. > > .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml index 91663946de4..0a01746cea9 100644 --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml @@ -647,7 +647,10 @@ pages: - mkdir -p public # HTML-ised source tree - make gtags - - htags -anT --tree-view=filetree -m qemu_init + # We unset variables to work around a bug in some htags versions + # which causes it to fail when the environment is large + - CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE= CI_COMMIT_TAG_MESSAGE= htags + -anT --tree-view=filetree -m qemu_init -t "Welcome to the QEMU sourcecode" - mv HTML public/src # Project documentation