On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 11:56 PM Karl Berry wrote:
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> Hi Han-Wen - neither fmt generation nor any other runtime generation has
> ever been parallel-safe. Even if I added locking to mktexfmt (I guess
> you are making use of the dynamic fmt creation), something I am not at
> all anxious to do, the
Hi Han-Wen - neither fmt generation nor any other runtime generation has
ever been parallel-safe. Even if I added locking to mktexfmt (I guess
you are making use of the dynamic fmt creation), something I am not at
all anxious to do, the failed simultaneous runs that would result
doesn't sound like
Hi there,
while building the LilyPond regression test in clean container with
parallelism, I am seeing file corruption errors from reading back TeX
.fmt files.
AFAICT, the various flavors of TeX cache .fmt files in ~/.texlive2019.
This file is re-created when it doesn't exist, but no care is