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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possibility of a ${srcdir}/info/dir target race?
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:22:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lppdjpzou.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7fzrx3un.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:11:36 -0400")

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:
>
> 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.)



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-22 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-22 19:13 Possibility of a ${srcdir}/info/dir target race? Rob Browning
2014-10-22 20:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-22 21:22   ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2014-10-22 23:18     ` Rob Browning
2014-10-22 23:55   ` Rob Browning
2014-10-23  3:41     ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-23  5:32       ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-23  5:49         ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-23 15:20           ` Rob Browning
2014-10-23  5:38       ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-23  6:36         ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-23 15:22         ` Rob Browning
2014-10-23 15:43       ` Rob Browning

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