Hi again, On 16.09.2015, at 14:42, Jack Howarth <howarth.at.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
> MacPorts gmake doesn't show the problem on the command line or in their > builds but I have only been able to test a rather narrow set of MacPorts > builds against their gmake. However I have been able to reproduce the build > failures under fink when the call to 'make' is substituted with > '/opt/local/bin/make' to invoke their copy. That's interesting, and a bit weird... But at least it suggest that it is directly not our "fault" for breaking GNU make, it may just be broken in general on Mac OS X 10.11... Not that this insight helps anybody faced with the problem :-/. > I doubt a unique set of packages exists to protect from this bug with the > usage of /usr/bin/make. The bug looks to be a race condition in the threading > support as tweaking the optimization of make build modulates the number of > packages that fail under fink make. Likewise reducing the number of cores in > the parallel build can suppress the bug. Also, when I debugged this by adding > -d, only one of the failing tests, texlive-base, remained and even then only > randomly. So the real question will be how many users machines have the > cores/speed to tickle the bug. My past experience with Apple and threading > bugs is that it is futile to expect them to be fixed in a given OS release > and usually you have to wait for the next major kernel rewrite. So, what shall we do then? * Just "patch" affected packages to workaround the issue * Split "make" as Jack proposed (i.e. package "make" only provides a "gmake" binary, and "make-default" provides a "make" symlink to it, similar to e.g. coreutils-default). However, I'd prefer to *only* do that on 10.11, as to minimize the impact this has on users. That said, my hope is that whether Apple's and our make is used for most users... Cheers, Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
