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Re: Testing parallel builds



On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 02:39:59PM +0000, Michal Čihař wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Dne Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:33:12 +0200
> Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> napsal(a):
> 
> >   That said, I believe most of the packages I package are autoconf/cmake
> > based or are small enough so that a parallel build is useless, so I
> > probably wont be annoyed here.
> 
> BTW: When mentioning CMake, are there any known problems with parallel
> build with it? I just randomly tried it last week and it seemed to be
> broken at least in some cases.

  I reckon I don't know for sure. Like automake I believe you can write
extensions that break parallel build quite easily.

> This is yet another problem: you can not properly detect whether
> packages works correctly with parallel build at one run. You can not
> guarantee it even after many runs. You just notice it when sometimes
> randomly it fails when complaining about missing files.

correct.
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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