diagnose duplicate sources (was: found automake bug)

2009-04-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Andreas, * Andreas Otto wrote on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:02:00AM CEST: > > I wrote the following line into my Makefile.am: > > pymsgque_la_SOURCES = pymsgque.c pymsgque.c pymisc.c > > -> double include the file "pymsgque.c" > > and got the following compile error [...] > -> please ch

Re: maintainer mode parallel make issue

2009-04-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:44:17PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues gmx.de> writes: > > > You can try this; test against git next of Automake. > > However, it also causes a hang on Cygwin, so there may be an independent > > bug (in the test or in perl); the lock() called from

Re: choosing the default for silent-rules

2009-04-20 Thread Eric Blake
Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: > >> What if a package maintainer wants to enable > >> automake's silent-rules option by default? > > > > Then you should argue for this; see the arguments against it here: > ... > > Hi Ralf, > > I think backwards compatibility is very important for some thing

Re: maintainer mode parallel make issue

2009-04-20 Thread Eric Blake
Ralf Wildenhues gmx.de> writes: > You can try this; test against git next of Automake. > However, it also causes a hang on Cygwin, so there may be an independent > bug (in the test or in perl); the lock() called from the thread seems to > never complete. Hmm. On some systems flock(2) is documen