Re: [LTP] sleeps in misc/float Makefiles?

[Todd I. <tin...@vn...>]

Robert Williamson wrote:

> Actually, I had to put the sleeps in there to avoid a race condition
> between the data file generation and installation.  For some reason the
> genfloat, genpower, etc. executables don't always finish BEFORE the install
> section attempts to link the files to the /testcases/bin directory.  I
> admit it's annoying, but this was a quick fix until I....or someone else,
> can figure out why the make doesn't wait for all processes in the "all"
> section to end before proceeding to the "install" section.  BTW, strangely
> this problem is worse on machines with large amounts of memory.  You can
> remove them and try the make without.....but you may see errors.


Ok, I'll play around with it as I find time.  I only have 1GB memory so 
hopefully I can reproduce it but maybe there is another reason (i.e. big 
memory machines are faster?)  Dunno.

Are you on an SMP machine?  Mine is only a 2-way so maybe that's why I 
didn't see this.  Then again, I wasn't doing make -j 2 install either 
(are you doing this?)

-todd