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Re: Fixing parallel byte-compilation
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Chad Brown |
Subject: |
Re: Fixing parallel byte-compilation |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:56:31 -0700 |
I'll hazard a guess that this solves the `exact-same-time' problem,
but still leaves dueling emacs builds with potentially incompatible
.elc files if there's a multi-file change, and so it wasn't deemed
worth the trouble. Of course, applying a patch someone already
wrote is less effort, so... :-)
*Chad
On Sep 10, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
>
> Parallel bootstrap sometimes fails if one Emacs process tries to read
> an .elc file that another is in the middle of writing. See eg
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4196
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6858
>
> and recent mails on this list.
>
> One suggested solution was to compile to a temp-file, then move it in
> place. That seems simple to do...?
>