Bug 12911

Summary: usb_modeswitch installation race condition
Product: buildroot Reporter: Joonas Harjumäki <jharjuma>
Component: OtherAssignee: unassigned
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: buildroot
Priority: P5    
Version: 2020.02.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Joonas Harjumäki 2020-05-16 16:40:10 UTC 
In usb_modeswitch Makefile dispatcher-script, dispatcher-dynlink and dispatcher-statlink are .PHONY targets. The result is that sources are compiled also when install targets are called. USB_MODESWITCH_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS calls $(MAKE) which is a call to parallel make eg. make -j9. So the install phase can install empty usb_modeswitch binary (happened once) if the compiler have just cleared the binary and install command installs it before compiler writes the binary. USB_MODESWITCH_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS should call $(MAKE1).
Comment 1 Fabrice Fontaine 2020-05-17 09:06:27 UTC 
Hi,

Thanks for your bug report and for pointing out a potential solution. You can find a patch fixing this issue here:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20200517090528.1724124-1-fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com/

However, instead of disabling parallel install, I updated the install target to avoid rebuilding usb_modeswitch_dispatcher during the install step.

Can you confirm that this solution is also acceptable and fix your issue?

Best Regards,

Fabrice
Comment 2 Joonas Harjumäki 2020-05-18 04:25:16 UTC 
Thanks, it works too!
Comment 3 Joonas Harjumäki 2020-06-01 10:21:33 UTC 
Why the patched has not yet been merged to master?