When setting ParallelMFlags during build, this gets stored in the config files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/*
These files get packaged up afterward with fixed ParallelMFlags set. The problem, is that when these packages are installed on another system, that system now inherits this option. So, if XFree86 was built on an 8 way system, in which -j8 was used, then other software which uses Imake for portability, will end up inheriting this -j8 flag even though the machine may be a uniprocessor machine, dual, or quad, or something else. As such the flags are correct for X during build, but not for software being built on the system the X build gets installed on. The way I ran into this, was that a particular piece of software (xpilot) would randomly fail when building. It built fine on other single and dual processor systems however. When built on a 4way or 8way box, the parallelism seems to create a race condition. The xpilot and other software obviously shouldn't have such race conditions, so that can be considered a bug in that particular software and certainly not an XFree86 bug. However, unless I misunderstand the Imake configuration, and ParallelMFlags, it probably should not propagate into the installed systems. Is this a bug in the way I am using ParallelMFlags perhaps, or is it a problem in the Imakefiles that should be addressed? -- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
