Odd buildbot behaviour

[Joshua Root]

On 2012-4-10 11:30 , Joshua Root wrote:
> Regarding
> <http://build.macports.org/builders/buildports-lion-x86_64/builds/199>:
> 
> The progress log is normal until here:
> 
> Building ice33-cpp (3090 of 13875)...failure
> Building ice33-java (3091 of 13875)...skipping, portfile not modified
> since last failure
> 
> After that, every port is skipped. Thing is, the check that would cause
> ports to be skipped in this way doesn't trigger when the portlist is
> 'all'. See:
> 
> <https://trac.macports.org/browser/contrib/mpab/chroot-scripts/buildports>
> around lines 70 and 107.
> 
> I'm not sure what could cause this apart from memory corruption or weird
> shell bugs.
> 
> Then, the Gather Archives step fails like so:
> ./gather_archives.sh: line 33: /opt/local/bin/port: File name too long
> 
> and the cleanup step similarly contains a failure:
> rm: /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/*: File name too long
> 
> So we'd better figure out what happened and fix whatever's wrong before
> we try that again.

Seems like most of the problems were caused by ice33-cpp. Still not sure
how the "not modified since last failure" check could have been
triggered, but we'll see how it goes now that ice33-cpp is fixed.

- Josh