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From: Chad Brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixing parallel byte-compilation
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:56:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <73F42D6A-34B4-4618-BDCF-7C1970E05DB5@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80occ5xilc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

I'll hazard a guess that this solves the `exact-same-time' problem,
but still leaves dueling emacs builds with potentially incompatible
.elc files if there's a multi-file change, and so it wasn't deemed
worth the trouble.  Of course, applying a patch someone already
wrote is less effort, so... :-)

*Chad

On Sep 10, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:

> 
> Parallel bootstrap sometimes fails if one Emacs process tries to read
> an .elc file that another is in the middle of writing. See eg
> 
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4196
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6858
> 
> and recent mails on this list.
> 
> One suggested solution was to compile to a temp-file, then move it in
> place. That seems simple to do...?
> 




  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-10 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-10 23:51 Fixing parallel byte-compilation Glenn Morris
2010-09-10 23:56 ` Chad Brown [this message]
2010-09-11  0:52   ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-11 10:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-11 19:04   ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-12  9:50     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-13 16:33 ` Davis Herring
2010-09-13 17:10   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-13 18:32     ` Glenn Morris

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