Subject: Re: another parallel-make race
To: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 09/12/2005 11:04:39
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:20:16PM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> 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?

From my point of view the problem "went away"... I didn't actually track
anything down..

Cheers,

Patrick