On 01/08/2017 06:13, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Alain Toussaint wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Just a quick word to say that groff-1.22.3 does not compile with make >> -j8 (number of cores counted by nproc on my system: make -j$(nproc) ). >> it build fine with -j1 > > This package has not changed in quite some time (November 2014). I build it > regularly at -j8 or -j10 and have never run into a problem. Perhaps you have > run into a corner case. > > We do say in Section 4.5: > > In some cases, the make step will simply fail. Analyzing the output of the > build process will also be more difficult because the lines of different > processes will be interleaved. If you run into a problem with a build step, > revert back to a single processor build to properly analyze the error > messages. > > I'd like to get corroboration of the issue from another user before changing > the book. > > -- Bruce > Bruce, do you use jhalfs for building this? The default is to disable -jN for groff (the list of packages for which parallelization is disabled is in <jhalfs-dir>/optimize/opt_config). That may explain why you see nothing.
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