Hi all,

Thanks very much for reply.
I will first try the option without parallel packages building as you
suggested and
then the second option and let you about the results.

Regards,
Jean-Jacques

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Juergen Beisert <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Wingston & Jean-Jacques,
>
> Wingston Sharon wrote:
> > The e2fsprog fails on some machines and not others. but it always
> > compiles after enough retries, i noticed that it shows a different
> > compile errors every time you do $ptxdist go.
> > It always shows a chmod permission make error in a different file every
> > time. Keep doing the ptxdist go. If you're luck in like 4-5 tries it
> should
> > compile again. Thats what happened in 2 machines I've tried in!
>
> Did you try to build this package on a multicore CPU?
>
> The behaviour you report sounds like e2fsprog's buildsystem is broken to
> build
> the whole package in parallel (just an idea).
>
> @Jean-Jacques:
>
> Can you try the following:
>
>  - copy the 'e2fsprogs.make' rule file from your PTXdist installation
>   (usually "/usr/local/lib/ptxdist-2011.12.0/rules") into your local rules/
>   directory ('local' = the Mini2440 BSP)
>  - open this local "rules/e2fsprogs.make" file now and add the following
> line
>        E2FSPROGS_MAKE_PAR := NO
>   after line 42 into the file. This prevents PTXdist from compiling this
>   package in parallel.
>  - and then try to continue to build the BSP
>
> As an alternative to the mentioned above you can instruct PTXdist to not
> compile anything in parallel (but it will slow down the whole build).
>
>  $ ptxdist -ji1 go
>
> Regards,
> Juergen
>
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