On 6/8/07, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote: > I've investigated further, and found another directory that fails due to > the build of a .o not being finished before the ar/ranlib rule to make a > .a. If I run BSD make with -j4 I can't get it to fail. But with GNU > make -j4, it fails pretty regularly. This is gmake 3.81 on NetBSD > 4.0_BETA2 on i386 on a single processor machine. > > The problem occurs in sane-backends-1.0.18/lib. > > The bug is that libtool --mode=compile will build not only the shared > .lo but the unshared .o as well. After make ensures that the .o is > built, and goes on to run the rules to get the .lo, it then feels free > to run the .o->.a rule in parallel, and this can lose as a .o is > recreated. > > I can explain further if this is not adequately clear. >
Thank you for the report, I've also faced with the problem. Just commited the fix into the CVS. -- Ilia Sotnikov