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From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
To: aoliva@redhat.com
Cc: drow@mvista.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, neroden@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Serialization dependencies muck up configure-on-demand
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212232134.gBNLYOu07414@greed.delorie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <orznqwzapr.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (message from Alexandre Oliva on 23 Dec 2002 19:28:32 -0200)


> We can use shell locking (*) in the top level to make sure no two
> configures run at the same time, if we really need that.

I really don't want to create a spinlock system just for a build.
There are too many weird ways that can fail.

>  Serialized dependencies are exactly the wrong way to solve the
> problem, IMO.  I hadn't realized they had been implemented like
> that, otherwise I'd have objected.

We've done it before.  We're using the "can't do this until you do
that" half of the dependency logic, not the "I need this built for my
build" half.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-23 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-23 11:36 Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-23 12:39 ` DJ Delorie
2002-12-23 12:40   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-23 13:46     ` DJ Delorie
2002-12-23 14:37   ` Alexandre Oliva
2002-12-23 15:07     ` DJ Delorie [this message]
2002-12-26  1:38       ` Alexandre Oliva
2002-12-26  6:53         ` DJ Delorie
2002-12-23 13:25 Nathanael Nerode
2002-12-23 13:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-24 15:42   ` Paul D. Smith
2002-12-23 13:28 Nathanael Nerode
2002-12-23 13:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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