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Re: Possibility of a ${srcdir}/info/dir target race?
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Glenn Morris |
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Re: Possibility of a ${srcdir}/info/dir target race? |
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Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:22:25 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I'm currently investigating a 24.4 build failure on s390x which is
>> beginning to look like it might be a make -j2 race (the Debian buildds
>> use -j2) with respect to the info/dir target:
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> Such races are possible, of course, but lots of us use "-j2" or more to
> build Emacs, I expect, so if that's the problem, you probably
> got very unlucky.
I don't even see how it's possible, since this rule uses $$ to get a
different random number in the file name each time it runs.
(I also don't see why this rule runs at all, since info/ is pre-built in
release tarfiles. Presumably Debian-specific changes.)