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...