I've recently seen an odd nit involving -j kernel compiles, in which
occasionally the build breaks because of a parse problem and vnode_if.awk. I've been meaning to sit down and see if I can reproduce it, I suspect a
dependency problem. -j should always work for the kernel, but I wonder if
some of the tool upheaval, especially relating to the vnode include stuff
in -CURRENT, has broken it.
I've seen something similar to this on 5.3 and 5.3-STABLE buildworld it happens on fast machines (both SMP & UP) when running 'make -j n buildworld' with n larger than about 8. It does not happen everytime, just often enough to make you wonder if the hardware is flaky or not.
I have seen this on P4E (Prescott), Xeon (533FSB & 800FSB) as well as SMP Opterons. I can't remember getting it on the Celerons. If anybody wants patches that fixes this tested, I'd be happy to help. It is very annoying when using buildworld to see if a newly built machine is working OK.
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