Re: parallel make bug

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
  > 
  > > 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? 
  > 
  > But why do you get an I/O error?  That looks like a hardware problem.

Doubtful, the machine I used is quite solid. IMO its probably
something to do with NFS (the source and objs directories are on
NFS).

Anyway, the error does not occur all the time, sometimes the failure is:

Cannot open load file: autoload