Re: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml: Enable native Windows symlink

[Bin Meng]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 9:48 PM Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
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> Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> writes:
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> > From: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
> >
> > The following error message was seen during the configure:
> >
> >   "ln: failed to create symbolic link
> >   'x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64.exe': No such file or directory"
> >
> > By default the MSYS environment variable is not defined, so the runtime
> > behavior of winsymlinks is: if <target> does not exist, 'ln -s' fails.
> > At the configure phase, the qemu-system-x86_64.exe has not been built
> > so creation of the symbolic link fails hence the error message.
> >
> > Set winsymlinks to 'native' whose behavior is most similar to the
> > behavior of 'ln -s' on *nix, that is:
> >
> >   a) if native symlinks are enabled, and whether <target> exists
> >      or not, creates <destination> as a native Windows symlink;
> >   b) else if native symlinks are not enabled, and whether <target>
> >      exists or not, 'ln -s' creates as a Windows shortcut file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
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> I'm still seeing Windows build failures such as:
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>   https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu/-/jobs/2765579269

I've seen this one before. Looks like this one can be easily reproduced.

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> and
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>   https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu/-/jobs/2765579267

This one seems to be a random failure?

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> Any idea what's falling over?
>

Regards,
Bin