Paul Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 18:24 +0100, Per Jessen wrote: >> Paul, how likely do you think it is that the problems I'm seeing are >> related to this timestamp issue? Upgrading this server is going to >> take some time, but I could perhaps try to replicate the setup >> elsewhere. > > Well, you said it seemed to be related to running via cron. It seems > unlikely to me that if the same build with the same amount of > parallelism and the same command line running on the same server in > the same filesystem works properly when you invoke it by hand and > breaks when you run it from cron, that it is related to the filesystem > timestamp support. > > Anyway, it should be pretty trivial to test. One option is to go in > and > add "sleep 1" into your makefile recipes. Things will get a lot > slower BUT you can see whether it fixes the problem or not.
Good suggestion - tried it, and it didn't change anything. Well, that's a relief at least, I really did not like the idea of having to upgrade that particular system. /Per Jessen, Zürich _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
