I'd like to run a full synthesis pipeline for my Vivado project, from a script, using "project mode". The reason I want to use project mode is to get the exact same state if I decide to open the given project in the Vivado GUI, for e.g. simulations.
The problem is that the build script either fails or always rebuilds everything. My script is stripped down to its essentials:
open_project BlinkenLights/BlinkenLights.xpr
update_compile_order -fileset sources_1
launch_runs synth_1
launch_runs impl_1 -to_step write_bitstream
wait_on_run impl_1
With this version, if I re-run this script (using vivado -mode batch -source build.tcl) after a successful build, I get the following error message:
ERROR: [Common 17-69] Command failed:
Run 'synth_1' needs to be reset before launching.
The run can be reset using the Tcl command 'reset_run synth_1'.
But that's not what I want; if I add reset_run synth_1 before the launch_runs synth_1 line, it causes the build to always start from scratch, even if no source files have changed.
What I'd like instead is to SUCCEEDS without doing work if the bitstream is already up-to-date, instead of FAILING, since I'm integrating it into a larger build system.
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I wrote a simple C++ program that requires some input to run. In the terminal I simply run in ./myProgram < fileWithData.txt. However I could not figure out how to specify and input file for the target executed in Xcode. I used the command line project. Of course I could use a different target, for example run Terminal.app and then pass it the executable with the input file but then I can no longer debug it.
This question: Cannot get lldb to read file input explains how to set the input path in lldb, but I could not find a way to specify lldb commands that are executed before the process is started.
I don't think there's a way to do this entirely from within Xcode. However if you set the Run Scheme in Xcode to the launch mode "Wait for executable to be launched," hit run, and then run your program from Terminal.app with the appropriate piping, the Xcode-embedded lldb will connect to it.
I am having problems with Teamcity, where it is proceeding to run build steps even if the previous ones were unsuccessful.
The final step of my Build configuration deploys my site, which I do not want it to do if any of my tests fail.
Each build step is set to only execute if all previous steps were successful.
In the Build Failure Conditions tab, I have checked the following options under Fail build if:
-build process exit code is not zero
-at least one test failed
-an out-of-memory or crash is detected (Java only)
This doesn't work - even when tests fail TeamCity deploys my site, why?
I even tried to add an additional build failure condition that will look for specific text in the build log (namely "Test Run Failed.")
When viewing a completed test in the overview page, you can see the error message against the latest build:
"Test Run Failed." text appeared in build log
But it still deploys it anyway.
Does anyone know how to fix this? It appears that the issue has been running for a long time, here.
Apparently there is a workaround:
So far we do not consider this feature as very important as there is
an obvious workaround: the script can check the necessary condition
and do not produce the artifacts as configured in TeamCity.
e.g. a script can move the artifacts from a temporary directory to the
directory specified in the TeamCity as publish artifacts from just
before the finish and in case the build operations were successful.
But that is not clear to me on exactly how to do that, and doesn't sound like the best solution either. Any help appreciated.
Edit: I was also able to workaround the problem with a snapshot dependency, where I would have a separate 'deploy' build that was dependent on the test build, and now it doesn't run if tests fail.
This was useful for setting the dependency up.
This is a known problem as of TeamCity 7.1 (cf. http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/TW-17002) which has been fixed in TeamCity 8.x+ (see this answer).
TeamCity distinguishes between a failed build and a failed build step. While a failing unit test will fail the build as a whole, unfortunately TeamCity still considers the test step itself successful because it did not return a non-zero error code. As a result, subsequent steps will continue running.
A variety of workarounds have been proposed, but I've found they either require non-trivial setup or compromise on the testing experience in TeamCity.
However, after reviewing a suggestion from #arex1337, we found an easy way to get TeamCity to do what we want. Just add an extra Powershell build step after your existing test step that contains the following inline script (replacing YOUR_TEAMCITY_HOSTNAME with your actual TeamCity host/domain):
$request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create("http://YOUR_TEAMCITY_HOSTNAME/guestAuth/app/rest/builds/%teamcity.build.id%")
$xml = [xml](new-object System.IO.StreamReader $request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd()
Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility\Select-Xml $xml -XPath "/build" | % { $status = $_.Node.status }
if ($status -eq "FAILURE") {
throw "Failing this step because the build itself is considered failed. This is our way to workaround the fact that TeamCity incorrectly considers a test step to be successful even if there are test failures. See http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/TW-17002"
}
This inline PowerShell script is just using the TeamCity REST API to ask whether or not the build itself, as a whole, is considered failed (the variable %teamcity.build.id%" will be replaced by TeamCity with the actual build id when the step is executed). If the build as a whole is considered failed (say, due to a test failure), then this PowerShell script throws an error, causing the process to return a non-zero error code which results in the individual build step itself to be considered unsuccessful. At that point, subsequent steps can be prevented from running.
Note that this script uses guestAuth, which requires the TeamCity guest account to be enabled. Alternately, you can use httpAuth instead, but you'll need to update the script to include a TeamCity username and password (e.g. http://USERNAME:PASSWORD#YOUR_TEAMCITY_HOSTNAME/httpAuth/app/rest/builds/%teamcity.build.id%).
So, with this additional step in place, all subsequent steps set to execute "Only if all previous steps were successful" will be skipped if there are any previous unit test failures. We're using this to prevent automated deployment if any of our NUnit tests are not successful until JetBrains fixes the problem.
Thanks to #arex1337 for the idea.
Just to prevent confusion, this issue is fixed in Team City v8.x, We don't need those workarounds now.
You can specify the step execution policy via the Execute step option:
Only if build status is successful - before starting the step, the build agent requests the build status from the server, and skips the step if the status is failed.
https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD8/Configuring+Build+Steps
Of course you need to fail the build if at least one unit test failed:
https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD8/Build+Failure+Conditions
On the Build Failure Conditions page, the Fail build if area, specify when TeamCity will fail builds:
at least one test failed: Check this option to mark the build as failed if the build fails at least one test.
This is (as you have found) a known issue with TeamCity, there are a set of linked issues in their Issue Tracker. This issue is hopefully scheduled to be resolved in the next release of TeamCity (version 8.x)
In the mean time, the way we identified to resolve the issue (for version 6.5.5) was to download the test results file as part of the later steps. This was then parsed to check for any test failures, returning an error code and hence breaking the build properly (performing any cleanup we needed as part of that failure) which would probably work for you.
TeamCity build failure does not mean that it will stop the build and it will publish the artifacts if your build is providing the the build output files as required by TeamCity. It will only update the build status properly.
But, you can very well stop the build process by modification to your build script to stop the build on test case failure. If you are using MSBuild, then ContinueOnError="false" will do that.
In the end, I was able to solve the problem with a snapshot dependency, where I would have a separate 'deploy' build that was dependent on the test build, and now it doesn't run if tests fail.
This was useful for setting the dependency up.
I would like to process some operations only if the build failed. For example, if runtime execution has thrown a core dump (it doesn't happen always, of course) and I want to move it somewhere, so that the next day build won't remove it.
Does anyone know how to perform anything in case a build fails?
Try Groovy Postbuild Plugin. With this you can use hudson api's to check if the build is a failure or not, and then do the required actions using groovy script. For example, you can use following script to check if the build is unstable or better
if(manager.build.result.isBetterOrEqualTo(hudson.model.Result.UNSTABLE))
{
\\ do something
}
Well if it is set up to log to std out, it will be in the Jenkins log, if not, can you set it up to log to a file in you workspace , then you can package as an artifact based on the name... If you are running in a posix system you can redirect stderr to stdout and direct those both to a file in your run command. Or pipe them through tee, so you get them in both
Currently I am building and testing my app in Jenkins. If a test fails in the job then the build is marked as Unstable. Is it possible to have the build be marked as Stable even though tests fail? The build is marked as Failed if code does not compile, and that is fine.
There is a plugin called Jenkins Text Finder:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Text-finder+Plugin
It allows to search console log for regular expression matches, and if found, it can set the build to various states, including setting it as "success" (i.e. not unstable).
Just echo a unique label/line into your console output after the build is successful, and look for that line with this plugin. Use "Succeed if found" option in the plugin to mark build successful.
I’ve produced a C++ program in Eclipse running on Redhat, which compiles and runs fine through Eclipse.
I thought that to run it separately to Eclipse you use the build artifact which is in the directory set via the project’s properties.
However this executable doesn’t run (I know it’s an executable as I’ve set it to be an executable via the project’s properties and it shows up as such via the ls command and the file explorer).
When attempting to run it using the executable’s name, I get the error:
bash: <filename>: command not found
When attempting to run it as a bash file:
<filename>: <filename>: cannot execute binary file
And when running it with "./" before the file name, nothing happens. Nothing new appears in the running processes and the terminal just goes to the next line as though I’d just pressed enter with no command.
Any help?
You've more or less figure out the first error yourself. when you just run <filename> , it is not in your PATH environment variable, so you get "command not found". You have to give a full or relative path when to the program in order to run it, even if you're in the same directory as the program - you run it with ./<filename>
When you do run your program, it appears to just exit as soon as you start it - we can't help much with that without knowing what the program does or see some code.
You can do some debugging, e.g. after the program just exits run echo $? to see if it exited with a particular exit value, or run your program using the strace tool to see what it does (or do it the usual way, insert printf debugging, or debug it with gdb)