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On Mon Sep 19 23:50:58 2016, kentfredric@gmail.com wrote: > On 19 September 2016 at 11:52, James E Keenan via RT > <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > > Hence, if there were a problem with parallel builds I would have > > expected it to show up on multiple OSes, not just FreeBSD, and to > > have started to appear three months ago. Can you clarify? > > > Its been showing up since at least 5.24.0 for me on linux ( That is, > before 3dfcef7e97bf1b516f ) , but I have special circumstances that > cause the frequency of appearing: One of our patches changed the > MANIFEST, which causes the *need* to resort the MANIFEST, which causes > the build order problem about 10% of the time. > > ( Granted whether or not we need to patch the manifest is a separate > issue, however, its just how we came to know of it, and will be glad > to see fixed ) > > If there were other things that happened which caused the manifest to > need re-sorting, it would cause the same problem. > > 3dfcef7e97bf1b516f just appears to have shuffled the deck enough that > other people see it now as well. What I want to know is why the build is trying to sort MANIFEST at all. Ideally, ‘make’ should *never* touch checked-in files, because then ‘make distclean’ doesn’t work. You can’t get a clean slate unless you are using a git repository. -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129229Thread Previous | Thread Next