From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 12 05:04:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA17813 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 05:04:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA17789 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 05:03:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.6.10) with SMTP id IAA29939; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 08:03:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 08:03:01 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: "Daniel M. Eischen" cc: Studded@dal.net, asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Build world fails. In-Reply-To: <199712121109.FAA24802@iworks.InterWorks.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Daniel M. Eischen wrote: > > * I can occasionally get -stable to build with -j n, but it almost > > * always fails, and it didn't save me any time. I'd say try it without the > > * -j, and see how that does. > > > > Really? It usually works for me. (Of course, it's only when it works > > without -j as well, but the intermittent unbuildability of -stable is > > not the issue here.) > > I'll grab the latest CTM and try a buildworld without -j. I've done > make worlds before on this box and have never had a problem, so I > am _reasonably_ sure it's not a hardware problem. I have similarly been unable to build 2.2-STABLE using -j 4; things go much faster (i.e., the build is disk-bound not cpu-bound) on my P120, but I start seeing symbol problems somewhere in. Unfortunately, I'm away from my machine as I'm at the IETF, or I would give more details :). My conclusion was that the dependencies were probably not quite right, and concurrency issues resulted it its changing symptoms. This is just an opinion, however. I have, on several occasions, been able to build wihout -j, but not with. Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/