Re: parallel make failure

On 11/09/2011 11:35 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  writes:
>> We still seem to have some dependency issues with parallel builds. I
>> just got this on a fresh F16 box against git tip, when running "make -j 3":
>>      ccache gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
>>      -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels
>>      -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing
>>      -fwrapv -g -pthread  -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE
>>      -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -DECPG_COMPILE -I../include
>>      -I../../../../src/interfaces/ecpg/include -I. -I. -DMAJOR_VERSION=4
>>      -DMINOR_VERSION=7 -DPATCHLEVEL=0 -I../../../../src/include
>>      -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/include/libxml2   -c -o parser.o parser.c -MMD
>>      -MP -MF .deps/parser.Po
>>      parser.c:25:21: fatal error: preproc.h: No such file or directory
>>      compilation terminated.
> I think you have a broken version of "make".  ecpg/preproc/Makefile
> is perfectly clear that parser.o depends on preproc.h.

Stock distro build:
   GNU Make 3.82   Built for i386-redhat-linux-gnu


It's not repeatable, at least not easily.

I'll let it go, but I won't be surprised if we see sporadic reports of this.

cheers

andrew