Re: Fwd: Building Guile with ‘-j1’?

[Mark H Weaver]

Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> writes:

> There could potentially be another workaround by synchronizing inside
> guild, i.e. claiming a lock before reading and evaling any given source
> file.  This would have the advantage of applying to all guile packages,
> not just the ones that use guile-build-system, and it would also allow
> non-Guile stuff, e.g. C extensions to be built in parallel.  WDYT?

I don't think this would solve the problem, because it wouldn't ensure
that the Guile modules are compiled in a deterministic order, and
therefore the issue I raised in <https://bugs.gnu.org/20272#8> would
lead to nondeterministic results.

       Mark