| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(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 18:43:06 |
| Message-ID: | 504CE33A.6000507@dunslane.net |
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On 09/09/2012 02:05 PM, 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).
>
>
Thanks for pursuing this. Whether or not it masks the underlying
problem, it's still something we should do, no? In fact, it seems to me
like this makes it even less worth trying to do anything better.
cheers
andrew
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