Re: Parallel build fails with 3.82

On 23/07/12 17:01, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm doing builds of WebKit with make -j8 because it reduces the build
> time from hours to 20 minutes on my build machine, but with GNU Make
> 3.82 there are occasional build failures due to what appears to be a
> problem in 3.82 (not 3.81).
>
> The WebKit bug is https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79498, and
> people discovered that the Make bug
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30653 not only describes the problem,
> but has two independent patches for it.
>
> This bug and the patches are now two years old - it would be good if a
> patch could be integrated or at least reviewed and rejected with a
> reason.

Thanks for the report Ross. I've been scratching my head with regards to 
make dropping dependencies in my parallel builds until I found this bug 
report.

I've been wondering if any of the patches here are going to be 
integrated. It seems that bug reports are left unanswered by the 
maintainers.

I can see at least two annoying bugs I personally hit, they have patches 
that fix the problem, yet no comments from maintainers:

   http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30653
   http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33129


Hence, I wanted to ask the maintainers what is their policy / workflow 
of addressing bug reports and accepting patches?

-- Maxim