Marc Espie wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 07:48:53PM +0100, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm building my ports with MAKE_JOBS=4, and I noticed that a few of the
> > ports were failing.
> >
> > * devel/boehm-gc failed sometimes (can't find "libgc.la" towards the
> > end of the build).
> >
> > * lang/ruby/1.8 failed consistently (can't find "miniruby" at
> > beginning of the build).
> >
> > * editors/vim failed consistently (can't find "ex.1" and other
> > manuals when packaging). I tried the "huge no_x11"
> > and "no_x11" flavours.
> >
> > * lang/ocaml failed consistently ("Unbound module Pervasives"
> > early in the build, but the build doesn't halt until
> > much later).
> >
> > * security/nss failed inconsistently, at different stages of the
> > build.
> >
> > I added PARALLEL_BUILD=No to these ports and now they build fine.
> >
> > Patches included.
> >
> > Cheers,
>
> Failing is not the issue. Figuring out whether the Makefile is wrong or
> whether there's some issue in our make(1) is...
>
I noticed that we installing in parallel by default if we build in
parallel ($PARALLEL_INSTALL). I know that some projects don't advise
this - Pidgin comes to mind. At least in the case of Ocaml, though, it's
failing before the fake target.
