On Wed 01 Dec 2004 18:21, Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seemed to be extremely lucky in getting "gmake -j3" to stomp all > over the place when doing the "mktables" step: either two or three > mktables getting invoked and trying to run simultaneously, sometimes > miraculously not corrupting any files, but most of the time failing > in various mysterious ways. The attached patch attempts to funnel > even parallel makes through a single execution path.
I can imagine the pain, but this patch comes nowhere near the state of the bleading edge Makefile.SH Which version did you patch against? -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.5, & 5.9.x, and 809 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, 11i, AIX 4.3, AIX 5.2, SuSE 9.1, and Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] send smoke reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], QA: http://qa.perl.org
