Race condition in parallel make install?

[Roberto Bagnara]

On 10/07/12 19:05, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> Joerg Arndt <arndt at jjj.de> writes:
>
>    * Torbjorn Granlund <tg at gmplib.org> [Oct 07. 2012 18:03]:
>    > Roberto Bagnara <bagnara at cs.unipr.it> writes:
>    >
>    >   I believe I discovered a race condition in the Makefiles.
>    >   This happened with a `make -j 4 ... install' of GMP 5.0.5
>    >   on Mac OS X (Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2):
>    >
>    > I never considered the possibilty of a parallel install.
>    > Does that work for any package?
>    >
>
>    Yes ;-)
>    And (IMHO) it is a good idea have parallel make working.
>
> And indeed plain make as well as make check works.  Parallel make does
> not work in the tune directory, which I don't regard as a problem.
>
> And I've never heard of parallel make install.  If people actually use
> that, we should try to fix it.

I believe it is used.  The point is not in explicitly issuing
`make -j 4 ... install' at the shell prompt, but in doing things
like

      MAKEFLAGS=-j4 ./build

with the result that `-j4' is used in all make invocations,
including `make install'.

-- 
Prof. Roberto Bagnara
Applied Formal Methods Laboratory
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Parma, Italy
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