Re: [Bug-zile] Problems with parallel build

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Reuben,

On 9 Jul 2012, at 17:56, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On 9 July 2012 04:47, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> But, adding back the missing `all' doesn't make any noticable difference.
>> Upon further investigation, I can only reproduce this problem when I
>> introduce the `-l 4.0' flag, which I never use personally.  If things start
>> working for you too when you remove that flag, then it seems like we've
>> found gmake bug.
> 
> Since this flag can only affect the number of jobs run at once, I
> don't see how it could be a make bug.

My reasoning is simply this: if gmake works when I don't pass that flag,
and fails when I do... then all things being equal, the bug is quite likely
in gmake.  Particularly when running top in another window shows that my
load-average peaks around 2.0.

Is it the same for you? What happens if you pass '-l 10.0' or even, '-l 100.0'?

Of course there's plenty of scope for me to be entirely wrong in that hand-
wavey armchair analysis.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)