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Re: FreeBSD, autom4te and locking on NFS
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: FreeBSD, autom4te and locking on NFS |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:03:40 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
Hi Paul,
* Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 06:57:33PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Invocation of autom4te fails currently on FreeBSD with NFS-mounted
> > directories:
> > | ../build-alpha-unknown-freebsd6.0/tests/autoconf
> > | autom4te: cannot lock autom4te.cache/requests with mode 2 (perhaps you
> > are running make -j on a lame NFS client?): Operation not supported
>
> Is that FreeBSD build actually using make -j?
No. You can grab similar output from the Autoconf testsuite.
(The line above was just me rerunning `autoconf' inside the Autoconf
source tree.)
> I've lost some context here. Could someone please remind me why all
> that locking stuff is in XFile.pm? After all, the last line of BUGS
> says, "Parallel builds via `make -jN' do not work." So why does
> XFile.pm worry whether "make -j" works?
I do not know the answer to any of this at the moment, sorry.
(But isn't all that stuff used as well when autoconf is rerun in
third-party sources by Automake's rebuilding rules?)
Cheers,
Ralf