Re: Bootstrap failure using 'make -j4' [Cygwin]

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>]

The problem seems fixed in rev 100412, 'make -j4' works just fine 
(thanks for having clarified the cores usage of CPU)

And...

Il 22/05/2010 8.57, Eli Zaretskii ha scritto:
> Thanks.  I think your problem begins with this error message I see in
> the log:
>
>     mkdir: impossibile creare la directory "deps": File exists

for completeness, I noticed this error on GNU/Linux because it caused 
the build to be stopped... But there I thought this was caused by some 
garbage from a previous build and, really, after deleting the build 
tree, I was able to bootstrap...

Ciao,
Angelo.

PS. Should I test what follow in any case?

> This comes from the following fragment in src/Makefile.in:
>
>      .c.o:
> 	    @$(MKDEPDIR)
> 	    $(CC) -c $(CPPFLAGS) $(ALL_CFLAGS) $<
>
> where MKDEPDIR expands to this:
>
>      test -d ${DEPDIR} || mkdir ${DEPDIR}
>
> Now, if more than one .c.o rule tries to create the `deps'
> subdirectory at the same time, one of them might lose due to a race
> condition, and fail the entire compilation.
>
> Could you please try changing this line:
>
> 	    @$(MKDEPDIR)
> into
> 	    -@$(MKDEPDIR)
>
> and see if that makes the problem go away?