Re: FreeBSD, autom4te and locking on NFS

[Noah Misch]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:43:46AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Well, that would be fine: lock() would detect it with MAKEFLAGS.
> My question was posed wrongly: is there real-world indication of
> build tools other than `make' that may happen to invoke more than
> one instance of autom4te, possibly indirectly, at the same time?
> (Because the MAKEFLAGS works independently of whether the Makefile
> was written by Automake or by other means.)

One could do this with Ant, SCons, or dmake, and we would not detect it.  I
think we have good coverage of real-world usage, though.