Re: Intermittent parallel make rebuild failures

[David Highley]

"David Highley wrote:"
> 
> "Edward Welbourne wrote:"
> > 
> > > Every time the subject of cache comes up its because they are always
> > > wrong.
> > 
> > well, this *is* a *bug* list - every time anything comes up here, it's
> > because someone's found a bug in it !  The vast amount of the time
> > that the cache works just fine and makes builds faster is (quite
> > properly) not normally the subject of posts to the bug-make list ...

Good news, it appears that Red Hat 5.4 with GNU make 3.81-3 fixes the
issue we are running into. Now to find the right version for Cygwin.

> 
> That's the issue, things used to work reliably. Now we seem to accept
> that they work most of the time. So far I find no acceptable way of
> modifying this build to be reliable. Here is the tough part of trying to
> fix this issue. If your trying to support a large build system and have
> consistency across subsystems and minimize multiple typing of code to
> minimize maintenance failures then it is very hard to solve this issue.
> 
> So far the only way I have been able to get the build to work it to add
> the macro $(DIRS) to the dependency line and change the $(LINK) macro
> not to use $^ but to use $(INF_DIST_SVCS_OBJS) which totally breaks any
> kind of maintainability across a large build system.
> 
> In the information provided the macro $(LINK) can be one of:
> LINK_STATIC             = \
>                           PATH=$(PATH) \
>                           $(AR) \
>                           $(AR_OUT) \
>                           $^
> LINK_SHARED             = \
>                           PATH=$(PATH) \
>                           LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(LD_LIBRARY_PATH) \
>                           $(LD) \
>                           $(LD_OUT) \
>                           $(LIB_NAME) \
>                           $(LDXFLAGS) \
>                           $(LDBFLAGS) \
>                           $^
> LINK_DLL                = \
>                           PATH=$(PATH) \
>                           LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(LD_LIBRARY_PATH) \
>                           $(LD) \
>                           $(LD_OUT) \
>                           $(LIB_NAME) \
>                           $(LDXFLAGS) \
>                           $(LDBFLAGS) \
>                           $^ \
>                           $(LIBS) \
>                           $(PLATFORM_LIBS) \
>                           $(MANIFEST)
> 
> > 
> >     Eddy.
> > 
> 
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