From: Tom H. <to...@co...> - 2009-07-16 18:27:48
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On 16/07/09 00:29, Julian Seward wrote: > On Thursday 16 July 2009, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Tom Hughes<to...@co...> wrote: >>> On 15/07/09 16:40, Julian Seward wrote: >>> >>> Inconsistent failures when using parallel make are usually a sign that >>> there is a dependency missing so that it is trying to run a step before >>> all it's dependencies are satisfied. > > Yes. That's what I was/am afeard of. > > Whatever it is, it's pretty elusive, though. A couple of spins of > "make clean ; make -j 16" produces no problems. This is on a Core 2 > Duo. Anybody got a 4- or higher-way SMP to try it on? I've tried it on 4 and 8 way machines and can't seem to get it to go wrong... Tom -- Tom Hughes (to...@co...) http://www.compton.nu/ |