Parallel build problems on sparc-sun-solaris2.8

Mike Stump mrs@windriver.com
Wed Sep 20 11:01:00 GMT 2000


> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:12:48 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
> To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org

> Has any of you access to a two-processor SPARC box running Solaris
> 2.8 (or perhaps 2.7)?

> I'm getting weird parallel build failures and would like to know whether
> these can be reproduced by someone else using my settings.

Most parallel build problems can be seen on single processor boxes
with a -j3 to -j5 bootstrap.  They can usually be identified by the
fact that make -j1 works flawlessly, and a make -j5 doesn't.  :-(

If you show us the error in a make -j5, we can probably tell you if
we've seen it before.


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