Re: Problem with make

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhold Kainhofer" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Cc: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 2:07 AM
Subject: Re: Problem with make


> Am Thursday, 22. September 2011, 01:55:15 schrieb David Kastrup:
> > > yep, happens about 10% of the time for me.  Running "make" again
> > > fixes it.  (almost always -- the chance of two failing runs is
> > > about 1%.  That's happened twice to me that I can recall)
> > > - - -
> > >
> > > happens to me nearly every time i make. You get news.tely and
> > > authors.texi. Failing. Run make again and it's fine. Never had two on
> > > the trot like graham.
> [..]
> > That points to either a problem with parallel make processes, or more
> > likely a time stamp resolution problem.
>
> I only get such a problem if I call "make -j3" (or something other >1). I 
> have
> never experienced it with "make", so my guess would be that the 
> dependencies
> of our texinfo files are not complete.
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold


I was getting it when I went from make -j9 to make -j5, but didn't want to 
be bothered with running a single core.  I'm assuming you're correct, 
though.

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Phil Holmes