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Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Mar 7 10:42:21 PST 2013


On 2013-3-7 22:50 , Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2013-03-07 12:40, Ian Wadham wrote:
>> On 07/03/2013, at 7:03 PM, MK-MacPorts at techno.ms wrote:
>>> On Mar 7, 2013, at 4:57 AM, Ian Wadham wrote:
>>>> I looked at the main.log for ticket 37620, but there is a lot of concurrency and it is hard…
>>> Concurrency?!  I wasn't aware of that, actually.
>>
>> You must be.  "make" runs parallel build streams all the time (-j option), but it is supposed to
>> work out the dependencies and not try to compile code too soon.
>>
>> It crossed my mind that meinproc4 sometimes might not work in parallel with itself, but I think
>> if that were so it would long ago have come up in KDE development builds.  BTW, I don't think
>> KMyMoney really needs a man page, so if parallelism is the problem you could just leave out
>> the man page in Macports.
> 
> Better just use
> 
>   use_parallel_build no
> 
> in the Portfile to disable this feature.

If it's the same crash as previous reports, that may not help (but it's
worth trying of course). Using 'build.asroot yes' did help in a lot of
cases (urgh).

- Josh


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