Re: What we have here, ...

On Jun 14, 2014, at 8:51 PM, Glen Barber <gjb_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Is a failure to build head/ with high make(1) -j values.  Again.

There’s likely a dozen or more of these lurking in the tree. Ian’s last set
of patches squashed many of the ones in lib, but I’ve not done a careful
audit of the i18n code.

> With empty /usr/obj, I have been seeing strange build failures on head/
> with high -jN values, but even as low as -j10.  The machine used to
> build snapshots of head/ and stable/ branches has been using -j48 for
> several months without issue, so I am certain this is a recent (<=1
> month) issue.
> 
> Of all things, it looks like fonts are failing to build, giving the
> following error:
> 
> --- MACGUJARATI.esdb ---
> NAME is mandatory.
> ENCODING is mandatory.
> *** [MACGUJARATI.esdb] Error code 1
> make[6]: stopped in /usr/src/share/i18n/esdb/APPLE
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this with empty MAKEOBJDIR ?

I haven’t seen it, but in -j races, that means approximately zilch… 

> I won't be able to reproduce the issue with log output until at least
> Monday, since I'm running the head/ builds with the '-jN' halved to 24,
> which so far seems to have made a difference.

How many cores in this box of yours?

Warner