Re: parallel make bug

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

  > > From: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>
  > > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:10:05 -0700
  > > 
  > > 
  > > Doing make -j8 bootstrap  on a 2 processor machine:
  > > 
  > > Directories: /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/. 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./eshell 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./mail 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./language 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./emacs-lisp 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./calc 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./gnus 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./textmodes 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./net 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./mh-e 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./calendar 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./progmodes 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./erc 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./international 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./emulation 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./url 
/home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./play
  > > Compiling /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el
  > > IO error reading /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/subdirs.el: 
Input/output error
  > > make[2]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
  > > make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  > > 
  > > Is there any reason $(lisp)/subdirs.el should start a recursive make
  > > instead of just depending on update-subdirs like in the patch below?
  > 
  > Is there a reason for the I/O error?  I don't see why it should
  > happen; do you?

For bootstrap, update-subdirs and autoloads can execute in
parallel. autoloads will run another make to do update-subdirs.
If "autoloads" creates subdirs.el first while "update-subdirs" is not
running, it is possible that later "update-subdirs" deletes subdirs.el
while "autoloads" is using it. Am I off base here?