Skip to content
PidebugDevOps1 file · +11 −10

Fix libxmlsec1 conda-forge build failures across platforms

Session from conda-forge-agent-traces on Hugging Face by xhochy · BSD-3-Clause · condensed by Coders Talk

51msession
0interventions
GOAL

Debug and fix a failing rattler-build for the libxmlsec1 conda-forge feedstock on linux-aarch64 and other CI platforms, then extend the fix to a subsequent osx-arm64 failure.

  1. Prompt · +0
    rattler-build build for libxmlsec1-feedstock on linux-aarch64 failed. Use the conda-forge skill, web search for similar issues, and fix it. First reproduce the error.
  2. Agent did · +0m
    Ran the failing build locally, read the recipe, build.sh and CI config, and dug through logs trying to isolate the actual error.
  3. Agent did · +5m
    Searched the web for similar conda-forge issues, inspected the PR's CI checks and Azure/GitHub Actions logs across multiple platforms (linux_64, linux_aarch64, ppc64le, osx) to find the real failure.
  4. Agent did · +14m
    Diagnosed the root cause: pkg-config missing from build deps causing configure to fail to find libxml2/libxslt/openssl.
  5. Agent did · +18m
    Added pkg-config to recipe/recipe.yaml build deps, committed, re-rendered with conda-smithy and linted clean.
  6. Fail · +19m
    git push to origin failed with 403 - no permission to push to the feedstock fork.
  7. Prompt · +38m
    Reported a new osx-arm64 build failure: -Wnewline-eof error in unit_tests/list_unit_tests.c due to pedantic mode, and asked to fix this too.
  8. Agent did · +38m
    Investigated upstream configure.ac, found pedantic mode enables -pedantic-errors which promotes -Wnewline-eof warnings to errors on macOS clang, and searched for prior conda-forge fixes for similar issues.
  9. Agent did · +44m
    Edited recipe/build.sh to pass --enable-pedantic=no to configure, verified locally on linux-aarch64, committed the fix, re-rendered and linted the feedstock successfully.
  10. Outcome · +51m
    Two fixes committed locally (pkg-config dependency, disable pedantic mode) resolving build failures on linux-aarch64 and osx-arm64; conda-smithy lint passes, but changes could not be pushed due to missing push rights.
VERDICT

Next time I'd give the agent push rights or a way to open the PR directly, since we hit a 403 at the end after all the fixing was done. The useful move was having it dig through the actual CI job logs across platforms rather than trust my local error output alone — that's what surfaced the real pkg-config and pedantic-mode issues instead of chasing the rpath red herring.

I tried this · 0

Discussion · 0

How Builds work