[wix-devs] Broken Build

Sat Jul 3 17:53:21 PDT 2021

OK, I see that MS claims to have a fix, but there is no schedule for its 
release .Not only do we have to twiddle our
thumbs, but we have no idea when we'll be able to stop!

This has gone from playing roulette to playing roulette with a broken wheel.

Repetition without explicit cleanup sometimes seems to beat the odds. 
I'm used to things working better when you
stick to a superstitious routine and worse when you don't. Perhaps we 
just haven't found the right superstition yet.

Ron

On 7/3/2021 8:18 PM, Bob Arnson wrote:
> It's a VS bug. https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/LINK-:-fatal-error-LNK1318:-Unexpected-P/1418710?space=8&scope=follow
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Ron Martin via wix-devs
> Sent: Saturday, 3 July, 2021 15:56
> To: Bob Arnson via wix-devs <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>; wix-devs <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc: Ron Martin <cpuwzd at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] Broken Build
>
> Bob,
>
> That didn't last long. My attempt to build develop terminated with the following pile of error messages: (I hope I snipped far enough back to be useful.)
>
> Before building, I did both a git clean -fdx and a nuget locals all -clear.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Ron
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> LINK : fatal error LNK1318: Unexpected PDB error; RPC (23) '(0x000006BA)' [D:\Repos\Wix\wix4\src\api\burn\mbanative\mba
> native.vcxproj]
> Done Building Project
> "D:\Repos\Wix\wix4\src\api\burn\mbanative\mbanative.vcxproj" (default
> targets) -- FAILED.
>
> Project "D:\Repos\Wix\wix4\src\api\burn\api_burn.sln" (1) is building "D:\Repos\Wix\wix4\src\api\burn\test\WixToolsetTe
> st.Mba.Core\WixToolsetTest.Mba.Core.csproj" (6) on node 1 (default targets).
> GenerateTargetFrameworkMonikerAttribute:
> Skipping target "GenerateTargetFrameworkMonikerAttribute" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to the i nput files.
> _GitClearCache:
> Skipping target "_GitClearCache" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to the input files.
> _GitValidateBaseVersion:
> Skipping target "_GitValidateBaseVersion" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to the input files.
> _GitWriteCache:
> Skipping target "_GitWriteCache" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to the input files.
> CoreGenerateAssemblyInfo:
> Skipping target "CoreGenerateAssemblyInfo" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to the input files.
> CoreCompile:
> Skipping target "CoreCompile" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to the input files.
> _CopyFilesMarkedCopyLocal:
>     Copying file from
> "C:\Users\cpuwz\.nuget\packages\microsoft.testplatform.objectmodel\16.8.3\lib\netstandard2.0\Micros
>     oft.TestPlatform.PlatformAbstractions.dll" to "D:\Repos\Wix\wix4\build\api\Debug\netcoreapp3.1\win-x86\Microsoft.Test
>     Platform.PlatformAbstractions.dll".
>     Touching
> "D:\Repos\Wix\wix4\build\api\obj\WixToolsetTest.Mba.Core\Debug\netcoreapp3.1\win-x86\WixToolsetTest.Mba.Core
>     .csproj.CopyComplete".
> _CopyOutOfDateSourceItemsToOutputDirectory:
> Building target "_CopyOutOfDateSourceItemsToOutputDirectory" partially, because some output files are out of date with respect to their input files.
>     Copying file from
> "C:\Users\cpuwz\.nuget\packages\microsoft.testplatform.testhost\16.8.3\build\netcoreapp2.1\x86\Micr
>     osoft.TestPlatform.PlatformAbstractions.dll" to "D:\Repos\Wix\wix4\build\api\Debug\netcoreapp3.1\win-x86\Microsoft.Te
>     stPlatform.PlatformAbstractions.dll".
> GenerateBuildDependencyFile:
> Skipping target "GenerateBuildDependencyFile" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to the input files.
> GenerateBuildRuntimeConfigurationFiles:
> Skipping target "GenerateBuildRuntimeConfigurationFiles" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to the in put files.
> CopyFilesToOutputDirectory:
>     WixToolsetTest.Mba.Core ->
> D:\Repos\Wix\wix4\build\api\Debug\netcoreapp3.1\win-x86\WixToolsetTest.Mba.Core.dll
> Done Building Project
> "D:\Repos\Wix\wix4\src\api\burn\test\WixToolsetTest.Mba.Core\WixToolsetTest.Mba.Core.csproj"
> (def
> ault targets).
>
> Done Building Project "D:\Repos\Wix\wix4\src\api\burn\api_burn.sln"
> (default targets) -- FAILED.
>
>
> Build FAILED.
>
> "D:\Repos\Wix\wix4\src\api\burn\api_burn.sln" (default target) (1) -> "D:\Repos\Wix\wix4\src\api\burn\mbanative\mbanative.vcxproj" (default
> target) (5:7) ->
> (Link target) ->
>     LINK : fatal error LNK1318: Unexpected PDB error; RPC (23) '(0x000006BA)' [D:\Repos\Wix\wix4\src\api\burn\mbanative\m
> banative.vcxproj]
>
>       0 Warning(s)
>       1 Error(s)
>
> Time Elapsed 00:00:19.12
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On 7/3/2021 2:26 PM, Bob Arnson via wix-devs wrote:
>
>> `git clean -ndx` is your friend. 😊 I agree incrementality is busted. I never trusted the incremental wix3 build either which is why I did all the multiproc hacking, to make a full clean build fast. (Pick your battles.) That's also why I started doing traversal projects. Maybe that'll help with incrementality...?
>>
>> Or we just go back to microrepos.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of
>> Sean Hall via wix-devs
>> Sent: Saturday, 3 July, 2021 12:36
>> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
>> Cc: Sean Hall <r.sean.hall at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] Broken Build
>>
>> It's the easiest to explain. Commands like that one could permanently delete files you don't want deleted. The problem is that the build process is not incremental and as seen on the CI machine never has problems from a fresh clone (aside from the poisoned nuget cache mentioned in a different thread).
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 11:10 AM Bob Arnson via wix-devs < wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>>
>>> How does that solve the problem? `git clean -fdx` would have the same
>>> effect.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of
>>> Sean Hall via wix-devs
>>> Sent: Saturday, 3 July, 2021 11:46
>>> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List
>>> <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
>>> Cc: Sean Hall <r.sean.hall at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] Broken Build
>>>
>>>>    I'm going to try cloning the wix4 repo to a different folder to
>>>> see if I
>>> can build that.
>>>
>>> Yes, you have to do something like that until somebody fixes the
>>> build so that isn't necessary.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 10:37 AM Ron Martin via wix-devs <
>>> wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sean,
>>>>
>>>> Your commit:
>>>>
>>>> 9bdf3730cd43e1af8a4ea9be6cf2fba77fcff2d2
>>>>
>>>> breaks my build.
>>>>
>>>> Specifically, the following files cannot see your changes in
>>>> WixBundleSymbol.cs and therefore generate errors:
>>>>
>>>> Compiler_Bundle.cs
>>>> CreateBootstrapperApplicationManifestCommand,cs
>>>> CreateBurnManifestCommand.cs
>>>>
>>>> However, the following files do see those changes and therefore
>>>> compile without issue:
>>>>
>>>> BalBurnBackendExtension.cs
>>>> CerateBundleExeCommand.cs
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what I could have done to create this situation. It
>>>> appeared when I rebased several branches on the most recent head of
>>>> the develop branch.
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to try cloning the wix4 repo to a different folder to see
>>>> if I can build that.
>>>>
>>>> I would appreciate any suggestions you might have.
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>>
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