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Date:      Mon, 9 May 2011 17:31:15 -0400
From:      Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com>
To:        Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error
Message-ID:  <20110509173115.397eae2d.web@3dresearch.com>
In-Reply-To: <201105091935.p49JZtMZ001635@mail.r-bonomi.com>
References:  <20110509142947.52d5efc7.web@3dresearch.com> <201105091935.p49JZtMZ001635@mail.r-bonomi.com>

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On Mon, 9 May 2011 14:35:55 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:

> > From web@3dresearch.com  Mon May  9 13:30:28 2011
> > Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 14:29:47 -0400
> > From: Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com>
> > To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
> > Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> > Subject: Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error
> >
> > On Mon, 9 May 2011 12:45:38 -0500 (CDT)
> > Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  Mon May  9 12:40:39
> > > > 2011 Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 13:38:19 -0400
> > > > From: Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com>
> > > > To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
> > > > Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> > > > Subject: Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 8 May 2011 19:52:54 -0500 (CDT)
> > > > Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > From [...]
> > > > > 
> > > > > >                                               Are you
> > > > > > trying to run a parallel build?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Reading the full trace _DID_ show a parallel build.
> > > >
> > > > How can you tell? I'm pretty sure I did not use the -j flag...
> > > 
> > > I actually read the log you posted.  <grin>
> > > 
> > > Shortly after the line with the makefile error, there was a line
> > > mentioning  'pmake'.   pmake is the 'parallel make' utility.
> > > 
> > > Q.E.D.
> >
> > I'm getting these unwelcome reminders of getting older and dimmer
> > more and more often; forgetting things, can't see the obvious in
> > plain sight, etc... 
> 
> Simple explanation: bit-rot in _my_ memory.  It was -not- an explicit
> reference to 'pmake', as I mis-remembered.  It was _this_ line:
> 
>      gmake[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Relief :)

I should then ask: where is the switch which tells Thuderbird to do a
parallel build or not? Since I didn't use -j...

-- 
Janos Dohanics



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