XI2 pull warning

Thomas Jaeger thjaeger at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 10:18:21 PDT 2009


I've posted a build log (make -j4) here:

http://pastebin.com/f3f965926

The more I think about it, the more it becomes clear to me that a
recursive call to make can never do the right thing during a parallel build.

Tom

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Thomas Jaeger <thjaeger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Peter Hutterer wrote:
>>> actually, the reason for this could be a missing dependency in the man
>>> pages. If you can reproduce this error, just check the Makefile.am for the
>>> dependency setup for the file it fails on. I've tried triggering it but
>>> without success.
>> My theory is that it's a race condition, where due to the recursive call
>> of make the same man page is built at the same time by both processes
>> and then the second mv fails.
> 
> Can you show the error?
> 
> --
> Dan




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