Bug#906222: gdal: undeterministically broken python packages

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 08/15/2018 05:15 PM, Niko Tyni wrote:
> I haven't located the cause yet; diffing build logs makes me wonder if
> the 'generate' target of swig/python/GNUmakefile is getting erroneously
> run in parallel with targets compiling the files that 'generate' modifies.
> So maybe it's just a case of fragility on parallel builds?

This is most probable.

A parallel building issue was fixed in 2.3.1, see:

 https://github.com/osgeo/gdal/issues/707

There are likely to be more.

Since building gdal for more than one Python version takes a long time,
I'm not in favour of disabling parallel builds.

Kind Regards,

Bas