On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/05/2013 05:30 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >> On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 11:11 +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> Sorry to add this only now, but I realized the failure is only >>> reproducible if I run the testsuite with "make -j", as in "make -j8 >>> check; and even in that case, the failure is racy. With a bare "make >>> check", things work for me as well. On the other hand, increasing the >>> parallelism even more, other tests start to fail as well: >> >> The test suite definitely cannot be run in parallel. >> > I realize that (and it's no issue, considering how fast the make testsuite > is); but I often run a "make -j8 check" just after running "./configure" > (requires less typing than "make -j8 && make check"), and that's where > things broke down.
Remember that GNU make has a .NOTPARALLEL special target to suppress parallelism. Maybe a makefile in the test suite would benefit from one of those? -David _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
