ppc64 gcc4.3 broken? [Was: koji build job hanging for 2 days?]

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 07:38 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 <at> freenet.de> writes:
> > You call looking at build.logs for several hours and watching them not
> > receiving any updates/progress for several hours a premature conclusion?
> > 
> > Sorry, but then koji has a usability problem ...
> 
> How is that Koji's fault? The operating system and/or C library caches stdio 
> writes, they aren't output immediately unless fflush is explicitly called, and 
> Koji has no control on the processes which are outputting to the redirected 
> stdout (make and its subprocesses).

stdout/stderr are being flushed upon all "\n"'s.

The compiler-call the build job hung on ppc64, on all other
architectures takes in the "order of minutes"

=> the logs are being flushed at the same rate

>  There's no way to fix that in Koji.
no comment.