Un-clean scripts/dtc causing buildman failure

[Simon Glass]

Hi Marcel,

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 at 07:22, Marcel Ziswiler <marcel at ziswiler.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon et al.
>
> Somehow doing an mrproper does not seem to clean intermediate file in scripts/dtc:
>
> ⬢[zim at toolbox u-boot.git]$ make mrproper
> ⬢[zim at toolbox u-boot.git]$ git status --ignored scripts/dtc
> On branch master
> Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
>
> Ignored files:
>   (use "git add -f <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>         scripts/dtc/dtc
>         scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/libfdt.i
>         scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/libfdt.py
>         scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.c
>
> nothing to commit, working tree clean
>
> Unfortunately later running buildman off such a tree than fails:
>
> ⬢[zim at toolbox u-boot.git]$ tools/buildman/buildman verdin-imx8mm
> Building current source for 1 boards (1 thread, 16 jobs per thread)
>    aarch64:  +   verdin-imx8mm
> +/usr/bin/which: no dtc in (./scripts/dtc)
> +Unable to find file 'scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/libfdt.i'.
> +error: command '/usr/bin/swig' failed with exit code 1
> +make[3]: *** [scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/Makefile:30: rebuild] Error 1
> +make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:394: scripts/dtc/pylibfdt] Error 2
> +make[1]: *** [Makefile:1970: scripts_dtc] Error 2
> +make: *** [Makefile:177: sub-make] Error 2
>     0    0    1 /1              verdin-imx8mm
> Completed: 1 total built, duration 0:00:05, rate 0.20
>
> Is this a known issue? Shouldn't a mrproper also clean such intermediate files?

Yes, that seems like a bug.

>
> BTW: Any news on getting that libfdt stuff updated to work with latest tooling (e.g. as used in Fedora 35)?

Can you give me more detail on this?

Regards,
Simon