Re: build farm machine using mixed results

On 09/07/2012 10:46 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 09/07/2012 09:55 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> On 09/07/2012 08:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>>> Well, it looks like it's always failing on ecpg, with preproc.h not
>>>> being made in the right order. Here is the last bit of a make log
>>>> starting from when it starts on ecpg. This is pretty repeatable.
>>> Hmph.  I can't reproduce it at all on my Fedora 16 box.  What version
>>> of make are you using?
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>> $ make -v
>> GNU Make 3.82
>> Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
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> OK, I just tried on a different F16 machine and it didn't happen. I 
> wonder what's different.

This seems totally stupid, but it happens when the path to the current 
directory includes a cross-device symlink. If I cd following the link, 
then this effect doesn't happen. Weird.

cheers

andrew