Non-destructive platform_version check, honest compdb errors, missing-binutils refusal

The platform_version pop defaults to the schema spec so a second
validation pass over an already-validated dict cannot warn about a key
the user never set. An unparsable compile database now fails naming the
parse error and the offending output instead of blaming renamed ninja
rules. analyze-memory validates the native objdump/readelf exist and
fails by tool name rather than silently analyzing with host binutils.
The shared smoke-test helper is renamed _toolchain_components_to_test
(it serves the esp32 PlatformIO job too), and the decode-dedup state is
cleared by an autouse fixture instead of by hand.

esphome/__main__.py

@@ -2022,6 +2022,19 @@ def command_analyze_memory(args: ArgsProtocol, config: ConfigType) -> int:
     # Get idedata for analysis
     idedata = None
     if native_toolchain is not None:
+        for tool in (
+            native_toolchain.get_objdump_path(),
+            native_toolchain.get_readelf_path(),
+        ):
+            if not tool.is_file():
+                # The analyzer would silently fall back to host binutils,
+                # which cannot read the target ELF
+                _LOGGER.error(
+                    "%s is missing; the toolchain install may be incomplete "
+                    "(run 'esphome clean-all')",
+                    tool,
+                )
+                return 1
         objdump_path = str(native_toolchain.get_objdump_path())
         readelf_path = str(native_toolchain.get_readelf_path())
 

esphome/arduino8266/toolchain.py

@@ -151,8 +151,12 @@ def _write_compile_commands(
         raise EsphomeError(f"Could not generate compile_commands.json: {result.stderr}")
     try:
         entries = json.loads(result.stdout)
-    except ValueError:
+    except ValueError as err:
-        entries = None
+        (build_dir / "compile_commands.json").unlink(missing_ok=True)
+        raise EsphomeError(
+            f"ninja produced an unparsable compile database: {err} "
+            f"(output starts {result.stdout[:120]!r})"
+        ) from err
     if not entries:
         # compdb exits 0 with [] for unknown rule names; a renamed compile
         # rule must fail the build, not silently strand every consumer

esphome/components/esp8266/__init__.py

@@ -131,7 +131,10 @@ def _validate_native_toolchain(config: ConfigType) -> ConfigType:
     # platform_version is a PlatformIO concept; drop it (as esp32's native
     # toolchain does), warning when a custom pin is discarded. The floor
     # above guarantees the schema-derived default is the ARDUINO_4 spec.
-    if conf.pop(CONF_PLATFORM_VERSION, None) != _ARDUINO_4_PLATFORM_SPEC:
+    if (
+        conf.pop(CONF_PLATFORM_VERSION, _ARDUINO_4_PLATFORM_SPEC)
+        != _ARDUINO_4_PLATFORM_SPEC
+    ):
         _LOGGER.warning(
             "'platform_version' is ignored by 'toolchain: arduino'; the native "
             "toolchain downloads the framework and compiler directly"

script/determine-jobs.py

@@ -596,12 +596,12 @@ def esp32_platformio_components_to_test(branch: str | None = None) -> list[str]:
     Returns:
         Sorted list of component names to compile.
     """
-    return _native_components_to_test(
+    return _toolchain_components_to_test(
         branch, ESP32_PLATFORMIO_TEST_COMPONENTS, _esp32_platformio_path_or_file_trigger
     )
 
 
-def _native_components_to_test(
+def _toolchain_components_to_test(
     branch: str | None,
     test_set: frozenset[str] | set[str],
     infra_trigger: Callable[[list[str]], bool],
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ def esp8266_native_components_to_test(branch: str | None = None) -> list[str]:
     list on core or infrastructure changes, otherwise the intersection with
     the changed-component dependency closure (empty list skips the job).
     """
-    return _native_components_to_test(
+    return _toolchain_components_to_test(
         branch, ESP8266_NATIVE_TEST_COMPONENTS, _esp8266_native_path_or_file_trigger
     )
 

tests/unit_tests/components/esp8266/test_toolchain_validation.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+from collections.abc import Generator
 from pathlib import Path
 from types import SimpleNamespace
 from unittest.mock import patch
@@ -29,9 +30,12 @@ from esphome.types import ConfigType
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
-def _arduino_toolchain() -> None:
+def _arduino_toolchain() -> Generator[None]:
     # The suite-wide reset_core fixture clears CORE.toolchain after each test
     CORE.toolchain = Toolchain.ARDUINO
+    esp8266._DECODE_WARNED_AT.clear()
+    yield
+    esp8266._DECODE_WARNED_AT.clear()
 
 
 def _config(
@@ -123,7 +127,6 @@ def test_decode_pc_native_missing_tools_warns_once(
 ) -> None:
     """A stack dump of many addresses produces one missing-tool warning."""
 
-    esp8266._DECODE_WARNED_AT.clear()
     with (
         patch(
             "esphome.arduino8266.toolchain.get_addr2line_path",
@@ -137,7 +140,6 @@ def test_decode_pc_native_missing_tools_warns_once(
         esp8266._decode_pc({}, "40201234")
         esp8266._decode_pc({}, "40201238")
     assert caplog.text.count("Cannot decode crash addresses") == 1
-    esp8266._DECODE_WARNED_AT.clear()
 
 
 def test_decode_pc_platformio_missing_tools_warns_once(
@@ -147,14 +149,12 @@ def test_decode_pc_platformio_missing_tools_warns_once(
     warning level as the native one; raw undecoded addresses with no
     stated reason are undiagnosable at default log level."""
 
-    esp8266._DECODE_WARNED_AT.clear()
     CORE.toolchain = Toolchain.PLATFORMIO
     idedata = SimpleNamespace(addr2line_path=None, firmware_elf_path=None)
     with patch("esphome.platformio.toolchain.get_idedata", return_value=idedata):
         esp8266._decode_pc({}, "40201234")
         esp8266._decode_pc({}, "40201238")
     assert caplog.text.count("Cannot decode crash addresses") == 1
-    esp8266._DECODE_WARNED_AT.clear()
 
 
 def test_resolve_toolchain_rejects_unsupported() -> None:

tests/unit_tests/test_arduino8266_toolchain.py

@@ -158,10 +158,19 @@ def test_write_compile_commands(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     assert (build_dir / "compile_commands.json").read_text() == entries
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("stdout", ["[]\n", "not json"])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
-def test_write_compile_commands_empty_db_raises(tmp_path: Path, stdout: str) -> None:
+    ("stdout", "match"),
-    """An empty compile database (compdb exits 0 with [] for unknown rule
+    [
-    names) must fail the build and drop any stale database."""
+        ("[]\n", "empty compile database"),
+        # A parse failure names its cause, not the rule-name story
+        ("not json", "unparsable compile database.*not json"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_write_compile_commands_bad_db_raises(
+    tmp_path: Path, stdout: str, match: str
+) -> None:
+    """An empty or unparsable compile database fails the build with its
+    actual cause and drops any stale database."""
     build_dir = tmp_path / "build"
     build_dir.mkdir()
     (build_dir / "compile_commands.json").write_text("[stale]")
@@ -171,7 +180,7 @@ def test_write_compile_commands_empty_db_raises(tmp_path: Path, stdout: str) ->
             "run",
             return_value=MagicMock(returncode=0, stdout=stdout),
         ),
-        pytest.raises(EsphomeError, match="empty compile database"),
+        pytest.raises(EsphomeError, match=match),
     ):
         toolchain._write_compile_commands(tmp_path / "ninja", build_dir, {})
     assert not (build_dir / "compile_commands.json").exists()

tests/unit_tests/test_main.py

@@ -7223,9 +7223,15 @@ def test_command_analyze_memory_native_toolchains(
     CORE.toolchain = toolchain
 
     config = {CONF_ESPHOME: {CONF_NAME: "test_device"}}
+    # The tools must exist: a missing binutils now fails by name instead of
+    # silently falling back to host tools
+    objdump = tmp_path / "objdump"
+    readelf = tmp_path / "readelf"
+    objdump.write_text("")
+    readelf.write_text("")
     with (
-        patch(f"{module}.get_objdump_path", return_value=Path("/tc/objdump")),
+        patch(f"{module}.get_objdump_path", return_value=objdump),
-        patch(f"{module}.get_readelf_path", return_value=Path("/tc/readelf")),
+        patch(f"{module}.get_readelf_path", return_value=readelf),
         patch(f"{module}.get_elf_path", return_value=Path("/build/firmware.elf")),
     ):
         result = command_analyze_memory(MockArgs(), config)
@@ -7234,13 +7240,33 @@ def test_command_analyze_memory_native_toolchains(
     # str(Path(...)) so the expectation matches the platform's separators
     mock_memory_analyzer_cli.assert_called_once_with(
         str(Path("/build/firmware.elf")),
-        str(Path("/tc/objdump")),
+        str(objdump),
-        str(Path("/tc/readelf")),
+        str(readelf),
         set(),
         idedata=None,
     )
 
 
+def test_command_analyze_memory_missing_binutils_fails_by_name(
+    tmp_path: Path, caplog: pytest.LogCaptureFixture
+) -> None:
+    """A truncated toolchain install fails naming the missing tool instead
+    of silently analyzing with host binutils."""
+    setup_core(platform="esp8266", tmp_path=tmp_path, name="test_device")
+    CORE.toolchain = Toolchain.ARDUINO
+    config = {CONF_ESPHOME: {CONF_NAME: "test_device"}}
+    module = "esphome.arduino8266.toolchain"
+    with (
+        patch(f"{module}.get_objdump_path", return_value=tmp_path / "missing-objdump"),
+        patch(f"{module}.get_readelf_path", return_value=tmp_path / "readelf"),
+        patch("esphome.__main__.write_cpp", return_value=0),
+        patch("esphome.__main__.compile_program", return_value=0),
+    ):
+        assert command_analyze_memory(MockArgs(), config) == 1
+    assert "missing-objdump" in caplog.text
+    assert "toolchain install may be incomplete" in caplog.text
+
+
 def test_command_idedata_incompatible_toolchain(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     """A non-native, non-platformio toolchain errors out cleanly."""
     setup_core(platform=PLATFORM_ESP32, tmp_path=tmp_path)