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On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 10:34:18PM +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> Control: tags -1 +moreinfo
>
> Hi,
>
> Your patch is a workaround, but not a solution. :(
>
> On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > cc65 sometimes FTBFS in parallel builds, e.g.:
> [...]
> > Ideally the Makefiles should be fixed for parallel building,
> > but if this is not easily possible the following is sufficient:
> [...]
> First, I need more information. The percentage of the failing builds
> and if the build failure increases with the parallel building threads.
> Say, "5% FTBFS chance when building with two cores, 8% FTBFS chance
> when building with four cores and 20% FTBFS chance when building with
> eight cores".
First, I do not have that information - and no better ways to gather it
than you have.
Second, it would not be relevant since any FTBFS chance > 0% is a bug.
As you already correctly observe, reducing the number of cores used
for parallel building often only reduces the FTBFS probability to
some value that is still > 0%.
Third, the only proper fix would be to fix the Makefiles.
If you want to invest time in doing something better than completely
disabling parallel building, then that's what should be done.
> Thanks in advance,
> Laszlo/GCS
cu
Adrian
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