On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 4:07 PM Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 24. März 2020, 08:37:56 CET schrieb Ben Cooksley: > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 7:48 PM Friedrich W. H. Kossebau > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why CI does this order, but not locally for us, no clue so far. > > > > Could this ordering be a race condition by any chance? > > > > Two of the three nodes that perform the builds on the CI system are > > 3rd generation Ryzen 7 systems (Octa Cores) with NVMe storage, so > > there is a possibility this is the case... > > There is only one thread/job queue here when make is run if I saw correctly. > So no race here I think. It might be rather something which determines the > order of otherwise same-level targets handled, something like unsorted hash > table layout, random number generation seed, something of that kind, >
Perhaps the order in which directory entries are returned, which would depend on inode creation? Regards, - Johan
