On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:50 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Quoting Marc Dionne <[email protected]>:
>
>> By all means post your failing build log (here or RT) when you get
>> errors, it's usually not too hard to figure out the problem, typically
>> missing dependencies or rules with multiple targets that can race each
>> other.  There may be things that are specific to IRIX, and in my
>> experience the race cases show up more easily on slower machines.  I
>> know that there are still some multiple targets lurking in the source,
>> but I've only been fixing them as I run into actual build errors.  It
>> might be worth cleaning the rest of them up.
>
> These race conditions don't show up as like (paraphrased) "on xxxx.o file
> timestamp is newer then it should be, rebuilding" do they?
>

For our Makefiles this usually involves generated header files and
shows up as a corrupted file - empty or truncated - which gives things
like unbalanced ifdef, missing declarations, etc.

Marc
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