JollyRoger wrote:
> AHA!! Thank you Adam! Yes, indeed I do have alias make='make -j 4'
> in my ~/.alias on this machine! I did that some time ago thinking it
> would help speed up compiles. I didn't think it would actually cause
> something like this to happen though. In fact I've compiled tons of
> open source stuff on this machine and haven't ever run into this
> problem. So just out of curiosity, why is this a problem for
> apcupsd, and not other open source projects?
Writing Makefiles that are parallel-safe takes some effort and since
apcupsd is so small we've never taken the time to do it. However, I
should look into putting .NOTPARALLEL targets in the Makefiles so make
will single-thread itself even if you specify -j.
--Adam
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