Re: FreeBSD, autom4te and locking on NFS

[Noah Misch]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:57:33AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I've lost some context here.  Could someone please remind me why all
> that locking stuff is in XFile.pm?  After all, the last line of BUGS
> says, "Parallel builds via `make -jN' do not work."  So why does
> XFile.pm worry whether "make -j" works?

`make -j' does not work in the Autoconf source tree.  We do cater to the
possibility of concurrent `autom4te's, such as `autoconf' and `autoheader'
running concurrently in some source tree that is prepared for `make -j'.