Hi Paul, * Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 06:57:33PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
