Re: pgsql: Refactor flex and bison make rules

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Jeremy Drake <pgbuildfarm(at)jdrake(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Refactor flex and bison make rules
Date: 2012-11-28 23:01:38
Message-ID: 18780.1354143698@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 11/28/2012 02:14 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Okapi has been failing sporadically on ecpg, and I wonder if it's
>> related to this change.

> Well, it looks like the make is broken and missing a clear dependency
> requirement. I think we need to ask Jeremy to turn off parallel build
> for okapi.

Yeah, we already know that unpatched make 3.82 has got serious
parallelism bugs:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2012-09/msg00397.php

I wonder whether adding another .NOTPARALLEL directive would be a better
idea than insisting people get hold of patched versions.

regards, tom lane

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