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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 1998 09:48:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au>
Cc:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG, Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: usr.bin/expand breaks make world 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980421094619.18524b-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199804211011.UAA11629@troll.dtir.qld.gov.au>

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On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Stephen McKay wrote:

> On Tuesday, 21st April 1998, S ren Schmidt wrote:
> 
> >In reply to Gianmarco Giovannelli who wrote:
> >> > >and a lot of this errors ...
> >> > >[...]
> >> > >
> >> > >".depend", line 1979: Need an operator
> >> > >".depend", line 1980: Need an operator
> >> > >".depend", line 1981: Need an operator
> >> > >...
> >> > 
> >> I have tried to newfs the /usr/obj and start again a new make world but
> >> the error is here again , same file, same point.
> 
> This is strange.  What does the corruption look like?  On my system, parts
> of C programs were written to the .depend file.  This might be a separate
> problem with generation of just this .depend file.
> 
> >Are you by any chance running SMP and with a large -j ??
> >I get messed up dependencies when I run with -j9...
> >It started when Bruce messed around with the makefiles weeks ago...

I wonder if my recent disk problem (the only one I've ever had with
FreeBSD, where I had directories entries being inserted into dirs, with
the inode set as 0) could be this?  I was doing buildworld with -j 12 on
an SMP machine.

> 
> This is getting murky.  There are so many possible things to blame!
> 
> I ran with -j2 but have only 12Mb of ram, so it does a lot of paging.
> Could your -j9 be enough to cause your system to page?  Bruce's changes
> could be just a coincidence if you only started stressing your system
> recently.
> 
> Stephen.
> 
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