Re: possible doc race condition - ideas or insight?

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 07:32:34 -0400, Mike Miller wrote:
> if I make those targets individually. But I have not yet triggered the
> failure shown above with my own parallel builds.

I have now been able to reproduce this race condition by going lower and
calling two instances of the font compilation command that the other TeX
commands call implicitly:

  $ ( mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+3/600 --dpi 603 ecti1095 \
      >& log1 || echo FAIL ) & \
    ( mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+3/600 --dpi 603 ecti1095 \
      >& log2 || echo FAIL )
  FAIL
  $ cat log1
  mkdir: cannot create directory ‘././home/mike/.texmf-var/fonts/pk/ljfour’: 
File exists
  mktexpk: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexdir 
/home/mike/.texmf-var/fonts/pk/ljfour/jknappen/ec failed.

So yes there is a race condition with parallel builds of *.ps and *.pdf.

Thanks for your attention :)

-- 
mike