On 8/20/12 9:27 PM, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Leo Butler wrote:
>> What happens if you run make without the -j2 flag?
> With -j1 make succeeds (maxima ./configured for all 6 lisps available in
> Gentoo). So, it's a parallel make problem. And it is new; 5.27.0 was OK.
>
> Most Gentoo users use something like -j8 or -j16 by default. Having many
> cores and lots of RAM, they don't want to wait. Those with cheaper
> hardware use -j2 or -j4. Makefiles which fail with -j<many> are
> considered buggy, and require fixing.
FWIW, I just did make -j5 (for the 5 lisp systems I had lying around) on
mac. No problems. I started with a clean set of src/binary-* directories.
Maybe I should have cleared out all the info files too?
Ray