On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 12:27 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> Actually...
> A few times when building the linux kernel I've received the message
>
> make[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add '+' to
> parent make rule.
>
> This isn't consistent so it is presumably only when some particular
On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 11:44 +, Earnestly wrote:
> Is this a genuine test failure or was this unintended?
I'm not quite sure how to answer that question: definitely I didn't
intend the test to fail :). And in fact, it doesn't fail for me. I
couldn't find anything that used the ".wait" option
On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 09:50:50AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> I'm not quite sure how to answer that question: definitely I didn't
> intend the test to fail :).
Ah sorry, I meant this in regards to whether the test was functioning
correctly and detecting a genuine error in make or if the test was
i
My company uses a third-party patch set which enhances GNU make for
distributed builds. There are many approaches to distributing builds and
this is just one but I believe the problem described here is general to all
distributed build models.
Distributed builds, naturally, must occur in NFS which
