Re: pkg/56817: python deadlock when building samba4 for netbsd32

[Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>]

On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 09:35:01PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR pkg/56817; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: pkg/56817: python deadlock when building samba4 for netbsd32
> Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 23:31:32 +0200
> 
>  On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 06:20:01AM +0000, mlelstv%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
>  > Building samba in a earmv6hf or earmv7hf chroot fails as the waf
>  > tool, written in python, deadlocks.
>  
>  This is not specific to ARM, the same problem can often be observed
>  on AMD64. I was not able to identify the actual test, in part because
>  the problem goes away in a single threaded build (MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=no).


Never happened on amd64 here, sometimes on i386, but always in a compat32
arm chroot.


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