On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 09:07:12AM -0500, Julien Rioux wrote: >> Thanks. Are there known issues about running multiple lilypond-book >> instances in parallel when they touch the same files? I'm guessing >> this is what's going on because a lot of the test files input the same >> snippets as example, which would have identical generated filenames. > > I can't think of any such issues off the top of my head, but I > wouldn't be surprised if there were unknown issues about this. > > oh wait, I *do* remember something arises from the translations: > the documentation has multiple copies of the same .ly file in > various translations. The whole reason we have a out/lybook-db/ > is to try to notice idential filenames and avoid rewriting them. > A few years ago (sorry... between 2 and 5 years is as much as I > can narrow it down from memory, and a few quick searches of -devel > didn't pinpoint anything) that was a serious problem with doc > compiles. > > actually, a quick look at the history for make/lydocs-make > suggests > 3a9c1df02fdb6846418c5794a7b04d07209e95b3 > and I definitely remember that John Mandereau was working on this > stuff. It would fit the time span. > > - Graham
I'll have to test again with -j3, sorry. I suggest we erase the last two commits from staging until this is resolved. The convert-ly commit should be pretty safe. Is there a git doctor in the room? Julien _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel