Build failure due to make -j8

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Wed Jan 30 17:05:49 UTC 2008


On Monday 28 January 2008, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> I was trying to build a new release of genius, but the build failed due
> to unsatisifed make dependencies on machines that use make -j8 or make
> -j4 instead of the usual make -j2 and indeed when I tried  make -j8 on
> my (uni-processor) machine, it failed too. The package is automake
> based. Has this behavior been observed with other packages? Could it be
> a problem with make or automake, or would it be specific to the package
> only?
>
> Gérard

most likely its in your package.  going fowrawd we will see in the build 
system -j32   and quite probably -j64  what generally happens is that things 
get built out of order with the higher thread count.

Dennis




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