On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 10:01:22PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > dh(1) and Multi-Arch, thanks to Steve Langasek" revision adds > the --parallel option to dh, while Ubuntu's debian/rules does not do > it. Perhaps Kees integrated a preliminary patch from Steve, that was > slightly different from the one that eventually made it into Ubuntu, > or something. I'm looking at it with my git-brz lens, so I've no idea > how this kind of cherry-picks is done with Bazaar. > > Anyhow, getting rid of this option fixes the problem in my sid/amd64 > and sid/i386 build environments. > > I suspect different degrees of configured parallelism and/or available > CPU cores explain the differences we've seen occur on the buildd > network. FWIW, I'm myself using DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS='parallel=5'.
Very nice work! Yes, I had added --parallel along with other changes since it seemed to work fine for me. > To end with, I'm not very skilled with Makefile's and all, but if > upstream build system does not support parallel builds, maybe there's > a way to forbid it entirely in there? This might avoid such problems > in the future. I will try to reproduce this with parallel=5 (I've used =4), and chase any resulting bug upstream. Thanks for finding this! -Kees -- Kees Cook @debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
