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Date:      31 Jan 2002 15:31:26 +0200
From:      Patrik Backlund <backi@bingo.tky.hut.fi>
To:        FreeBSD STABLE <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: make buildworld fails on sdiff
Message-ID:  <1012483886.615.27.camel@bingo.tky.hut.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20020131100610.A9926@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
References:  <20020130141859.D423@iib.unsam.edu.ar> <20020130192746.A50727@sunbay.com>  <20020131100610.A9926@iib.unsam.edu.ar>

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On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 15:06, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> However i was suprised to hear David say that:
> 
> | If this was with -jN (N numeric), the "real" error is likely to be
> | somewhat above the lines you quoted; please check -- or try to re-create
> | the problem without the -j flag -- if, in fact, you used such a flag.
> | 
> | The reason I suspect this is that the error isn't readily apparent from
> | the lines you quoted.
> 
> Of course I tried the buildworld with -j4. But that wasn't the problem
> (I did that many times before with success)

I guess what David was trying to say is that when you compile with -j4
the output from the different parallel jobs will be mixed and spotting
the error is harder. It is therefore better to supply the error messages
from a buildworld without -jN flag.

Patrik


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