Subject: Re: another parallel-make race
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/11/2005 14:20:16
hi,

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:08:47AM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:32:45PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
>   | In article <20050829163259.GB18035@spathi.chuq.com>,
>   | 	Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com> writes:
>   | > got this failure this morning:
>   | [...]
>   | > there doesn't appear to be any dependency to make sure that
>   | > /root/.profile is created before trying to create the hardlink to it.
>   | 
>   | Me too. It also broke an autobuild.
>   | 
>   | My current guess is that revision 1.240 of "src/Makefile" caused this
>   | problem. I need however to run another build to prove it.
> 
> That change triggers the problem, rather than being the cause.
> I think the problem is in <bsd.links.mk>'s handling of configlinksinstall.
> I have a patch I'm testing; once that works I'll commit it.

any progress on this?  could you post the proposed patch?

-Chuck