Re: build farm machine using <make -j 8> mixed results

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Creager <robert(at)logicalchaos(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: build farm machine using <make -j 8> mixed results
Date: 2012-09-09 20:32:38
Message-ID: 1347222758.6563.16.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 14:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> And the answer is ... it's a gmake bug. Apparently introduced in 3.82.
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30653
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835424
>
> So I think .NOTPARALLEL is just masking the true problem, but
> nonetheless it's a problem. And given that the bug report on savannah
> has been ignored for two years, we should not hold our breath for a fix
> to appear upstream (much less propagate to everyone using 3.82).

So does the issue go away when using GNU make 3.81?

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