On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:21:25PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi 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.
Thanks applied (23592) Although when testing with make -j3 on x86 Linux, I found that it (GNU make) still attempted to set two mktables off at the same time. Is the problem in this target, or is it earlier. For example, does the first make invocation wait on the make depends? Nicholas Clark
