Re: [PATCH] xfs-cmds: fix parallel installs in include/ dirs

Eric Sandeen
2008-12-30T20:24:18Z

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 December 2008 12:18:25 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:07:30AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> acl-2.2.47 built fine for me with `./configure && make` and this patch
>>> ...
>> Works now after a make distclean for me.
>>
>>> that said, if the only purpose of this is to make sure there are symlinks
>>> in include/, why not do it at the tail end of configure ? then there
>>> will be no weird parallel magic to worry about, and everything will
>>> always be available once configure has finished.
>> I'll leave that to Eric or anyone else who wants to play a build system
>> expert on TV :)
>
> it's easy to do, i just dont know how people feel about the idea in general

Doesn't much matter to me; not sure what is customary. Both ways work
fine, I think.

-Eric