From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 11:14:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C2516A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:14:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.156.12.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1878A43D1D for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:14:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95C9046B40; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 06:14:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:13:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20050131183612.GA81428@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: Juergen Dankoweit Subject: Re: 5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:14:40 -0000 On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 07:16:48PM +0100, Juergen Dankoweit wrote: > > > In a german documenation I have read that the "-j"-switch should not be > > used because I makes trouble especially on SMP-systems. > > This is incorrect. I've recently seen an odd nit involving -j kernel compiles, in which occasionally the build breaks because of a parse problem and vnode_if.awk. I've been meaning to sit down and see if I can reproduce it, I suspect a dependency problem. -j should always work for the kernel, but I wonder if some of the tool upheaval, especially relating to the vnode include stuff in -CURRENT, has broken it. Robert N M Watson