From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bootstrap failure using 'make -j4' [Cygwin] Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 15:54:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4BF7E215.3060005@swipnet.se> References: <4BF69E5B.7040006@alice.it> <83vdahz0v0.fsf@gnu.org> <4BF6BB85.3010504@alice.it> <83r5l5yw33.fsf@gnu.org> <4BF70D0B.9050106@alice.it> <83d3wozamt.fsf@gnu.org> <4BF7B965.9040203@swipnet.se> <838w7cp0hx.fsf@gnu.org> <4BF7D551.1020204@swipnet.se> <834oi0oyw6.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274536506 20167 80.91.229.12 (22 May 2010 13:55:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 13:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 22 15:55:04 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFpAN-00088W-T1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 15:55:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34900 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFpAN-0004r2-AE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 09:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35901 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFpAG-0004qU-VY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 09:54:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFpAE-0008Uf-FO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 09:54:56 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-b12.telenor.se ([62.127.194.21]:34802) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFpAB-0008Tv-RO; Sat, 22 May 2010 09:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb2.telenor.se (ipb2.telenor.se [195.54.127.165]) by smtprelay-b12.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AF8CB62; Sat, 22 May 2010 15:54:38 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.35] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ask+ABJ/90tV4S0jPGdsb2JhbACHaJYpDAEBAQE1LbxuhRME X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,283,1272837600"; d="scan'208";a="77873073" Original-Received: from c-232de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.35]) by ipb2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 22 May 2010 15:54:30 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.13] (zeplin [172.20.199.13]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6C3EA7FA05A; Sat, 22 May 2010 15:54:30 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 In-Reply-To: <834oi0oyw6.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:125071 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii skrev 2010-05-22 15.21: >> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 15:00:01 +0200 >> From: Jan Dj=E4rv >> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it >> >>> I think the -p switch to mkdir is not portable. >>> >> >> I has been in The Single UNIX =AE Specification since 1997 at least. = I think it >> was in POSIX 2 as well (1990), but I lost it, so I can't check. >> >> Do you know any system that doesn't have it? > > Not by name, no. But this is in the GNU Coding Statndards: > > Generally, stick to the widely-supported (usually POSIX-specifi= ed) > options and features of these programs. For example, don't use `m= kdir > -p', convenient as it may be, because a few systems don't support = it at > all and with others, it is not safe for parallel execution. > > If this is no longer a consideration, perhaps we should ask Richard to > amend standards.texi. > Well, -p is in POSIX now, so I guess the standards needs to be updated on= that=20 point. But it is still not parallel safe. Emacs uses prototypes in C without macros now, and that is something the = GNU=20 coding standards says not to do. So I really don't know how relevant the= GNU=20 Coding standards are for Emacs developemnt. Jan D.