From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422932AbWAMUeT (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:34:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422934AbWAMUeS (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:34:18 -0500 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.26]:48363 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422932AbWAMUeS (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:34:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:34:15 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Ben Greear Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Compile error with 2.6.15 Message-Id: <20060113123415.932b4a80.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <43C76104.5090607@candelatech.com> References: <43C75D2A.2050405@candelatech.com> <43C76104.5090607@candelatech.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.1.7 (GTK+ 2.4.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Guess it is probably not a real problem... Or, it's probably a real problem. The asm-offsets.h file has a long history of being a thorn in the side of Makefiles, including race conditions (such as you saw with -j4). There is a natural circular dependency in the construction of the asm-offsets.h file and the rest of the build that's tricky to get right. Whether or not someone sees enough evidence yet to deal with this instance of that breakage ... that's another matter. Often this kind of breakage remains until someone with the right mental weapons gets bit by it, and goes hunting it down. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401