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Re: Suggestion to induce a random delay before compiling.
- From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt at metux dot de>
- To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:48:43 +0200
- Subject: Re: Suggestion to induce a random delay before compiling.
- References: <4C9609B5.5000203@onetel.net>
- Reply-to: weigelt at metux dot de
* Dr. David Kirkby <david.kirkby@onetel.net> wrote:
> We have noted on the Sage maths project that we get occasional build
> failures when the constituent parts are built in parallel. Each time a bug
> is found, the Makefile gets edited, only for another to be found. I built
> one component called "Singular" 110 times and it worked in all 110 times. I
> did this in 4 directories and started the builds at different times, but
> still I got the problem.
Smells like the dependencies are not modelled correctly in the
Makefiles. I'd suggest a deeper revision.
cu
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