Re: Patch for Makefile race against current cvs

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Klaus Naumann writes:
>
> > attached is a patch which kills a race condition in the current Makefile
> > system. The Problem occurs if you compile with make -j3 (as many ppl
> > with Dual CPU Systems will do).
> > Removing the y.tab.X file is not a good idea as this will trigger
> > a second compile in the make install stage ...
>
> Well, -j does work if you're using a tarball, but not in a bare CVS tree.

Why is that - or better, what's changed in the tar ball which makes it
work ?

> There are a couple of details that I don't like about your patch, but I
> can see that the issue gets fixed.

What are the details ?

    Thanks, Klaus

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