Roland Mainz wrote:
> 
> James Carlson wrote:
> > Roland Mainz writes:
> > > - Some dependicies are completely broken for highly-parallel setups
> >
> > Please file bugs or at least mention what sorts of failures you see.
> > There shouldn't be any broken dependencies in the gate.  If there are,
> > then they're just time bombs waiting for the next high-end build
> > machine to trip over.
> 
> Mhhh... at least in the case of the library dependicies the build will
> not "trip over" (ok, there is a small microscopic gap) if the underlying
> machine has the shared libraries, too. If the *.so* file is missing in
> ${ROOT} then the version from the underlying build machine will be used.
> This is AFAIK only harmfull for builds which add new libraries and add
> broken dependicies but AFAIK it doesn't cause direct harm for the normal
> build (e.g. no exploding puppy heads or build failures).

... I forgot to list flag days which change private APIs between
libraries... ;-(

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Bye,
Roland

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