536147 - Disable build symbols on Mac bloat builds

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Mozilla Messaging Graveyard :: Release Engineering, defect, P1)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

The trunk mac bloat builders are frequently red. Probably about 50% of this is the fact we fail build_symbols (the other 50% is because linking gklayout likes to timeout a lot).

As the build_symbols steps is required only to produce crash symbols in the event of a crash during the bloat run, I propose that we temporarily disable build_symbols on Mac bloat builds.

I'm proposing this because having compiled builds not able to run because the crash symbols step failed is a PITA, it causes tinderbox to be red and the bloat test doesn't get run.

AFAIK we don't have any occasional crashers, if we do, we can always re-enable this to try and catch them. However at the moment, I'd rather have the tree a lot more green than red.

To re-enable build symbols, we can first test any stability solution on staging, and then bring it across to production. I'm proposing that we do this in bug 523685 which was set up to look at build_symbols issues anyway.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Is it possible to just do this on trunk (and see how 1.9.2 / 1.9.1 get on - 1.9.1 is generally green, 1.9.2 is unknown at this stage)?

Comment 2

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

I've increased the timeout to 60 minutes, let's first see if that helps.