From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possibility of a ${srcdir}/info/dir target race? Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:22:25 -0400 Message-ID: <5lppdjpzou.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <877fzrkje1.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414012961 377 80.91.229.3 (22 Oct 2014 21:22:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 21:22:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rob Browning , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 22 23:22:34 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xh3MY-0007Xh-3g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 23:22:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60932 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xh3MV-0008UZ-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:22:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55750) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xh3MS-0008UU-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:22:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xh3MR-0005n5-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:22:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xh3MR-0005mn-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xh3MP-0000Ff-Tj; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:22:26 -0400 X-Spook: RSA CDMA Tony Blair eternity server Audiotel Hamas 2600 X-Ran: 9x,}R[a1I7i6~btz2M`/~53(yM}dS_AWPpQEi3"YY_iUkfp`CTPET9rQx%U"oN'$`>QL;\ X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:11:36 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175706 Archived-At: 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.)