From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 31 5:31:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bingo.tky.hut.fi (bingo.tky.hut.fi [130.233.28.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF16037B421 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 05:31:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from bingo.tky.hut.fi (backi@bingo.tky.hut.fi [130.233.28.67]) by bingo.tky.hut.fi (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0VDVQQ05718 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:31:26 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from backi@bingo.tky.hut.fi) Subject: Re: make buildworld fails on sdiff From: Patrik Backlund To: FreeBSD STABLE In-Reply-To: <20020131100610.A9926@iib.unsam.edu.ar> References: <20020130141859.D423@iib.unsam.edu.ar> <20020130192746.A50727@sunbay.com> <20020131100610.A9926@iib.unsam.edu.ar> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.1 Date: 31 Jan 2002 15:31:26 +0200 Message-Id: <1012483886.615.27.camel@bingo.tky.hut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 15:06, Fernan Aguero wrote: > However i was suprised to hear David say that: > > | If this was with -jN (N numeric), the "real" error is likely to be > | somewhat above the lines you quoted; please check -- or try to re-create > | the problem without the -j flag -- if, in fact, you used such a flag. > | > | The reason I suspect this is that the error isn't readily apparent from > | the lines you quoted. > > Of course I tried the buildworld with -j4. But that wasn't the problem > (I did that many times before with success) I guess what David was trying to say is that when you compile with -j4 the output from the different parallel jobs will be mixed and spotting the error is harder. It is therefore better to supply the error messages from a buildworld without -jN flag. Patrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message