problem with parallel make

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:55:38PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Josef Zlomek wrote:
> 
> >> This is more believable.  The problem is probably caused by the config.cache
> >> shared by libiberty and libffi; if autoconf 2.57 is putting the wrong
> >> thing there, we'll fall apart later in libffi.
> >
> >Yes, that will be the reason.
> 
> >> In any case, please post the configure and make commands you are using,
> >> including any environment variables.
> >
> >../configure --enable-checking --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,f77
> >make -j2 bootstrap 
> 
> Does it work with --enable-serial-configure ?
> 
> Without this flag, I've had all sorts of weird problems with parallel
> bootstrap; apparently access to the shared config.cache is not properly
> synchronized between configures running in parallel ...

More likely, the particular order serial-configure forces happens to
work and the one that is being chosen by make doesn't.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer