Re: build farm machine using <make -j 8> mixed results

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Creager <robert(at)logicalchaos(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: build farm machine using <make -j 8> mixed results
Date: 2012-09-09 20:35:01
Message-ID: 1347222901.6563.18.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 14:57 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > On 09/09/2012 02:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> And the answer is ... it's a gmake bug.
>
> > Thanks for pursuing this. Whether or not it masks the underlying
> > problem, it's still something we should do, no? In fact, it seems to me
> > like this makes it even less worth trying to do anything better.
>
> Yeah, exactly.

But then the answer could be, if you want to use parallel make, use a
version that's not broken.

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