Bug#458634: Investigating parallel build problems

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 03/02/09 at 12:02 -0200, Gustavo Noronha wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am investigating these two bugs. After reading the build logs, and the
> Makefile.am files I am puzzled. Both bugs happen because the test
> directory is being built in parallel with other directories. This should
> not be possible given how the Makefile.am files are written, any clues
> on how that might have happened?
> 
> Anyway, I'm trying to reproduce this building 2.16.6 with parallel=8 and
> I haven't been able, still - the directories are processed in a serial
> way, even though files inside the directories are being built parallely.
> If I am unable to reproduce this with some more tries, I am going to
> assume 2.16 fixes this. Opinions?

Hi,

2.16.6-1 built fine in january. That doesn't mean that it's fixed (it's
a race condition), but at least doesn't show that it's still there.

I'm fine if you mark it as fixed in 2.16.6-1, I'll reopen if I can
reproduce it during a future rebuild.
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