Re: targets/SECONDARY TEST#9 fails sometimes

2011-12-07 Thread Tim Newsome
Does anybody know what the right solution to this problem is? I'm happy to implement/test either one, but I don't want to spend my time working on a solution that won't be accepted upstream. Tim On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Tim Newsome wrote: > TEST #9 in targets/SECONDA

targets/SECONDARY TEST#9 fails sometimes

2011-11-22 Thread Tim Newsome
TEST #9 in targets/SECONDARY sometimes fails when two commands execute in a different order than expected. As far as I can tell make is doing the right thing. # TEST #9 -- Savannah bug #15919 # The original fix for this bug caused a new bug, shown here. touch(qw(1.a 2.a)); run_make_test(' %.c :

Re: fix for make gaining jobserver tokens

2011-11-14 Thread Tim Newsome
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 13:34 -0700, Tim Newsome wrote: > > We do a lot of builds (as in double-digit servers building non-stop). > > Sometimes, when a part of the build fails, make -j8 would die with: > > make: INT

fix for make gaining jobserver tokens

2011-10-25 Thread Tim Newsome
y-one error in cleanup code that is almost never run. Attached is a patch that fixes it. We've been running with it for over 5 days now and haven't noticed any problems. Tim From 2fc5429506b6c1221992f91f5d608598067e3f21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Newsome Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011