Re: A few 10.11 glitches and possible workarounds
Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
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> On Oct 1, 2015, at 11:24, Jack Howarth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Jack Howarth <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:33 AM, William G. Scott <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > In the course of building some of my packages, a few dependencies failed to compile, requiring minor tweaks: > > gtk+2 — I had to change to UseMaxBuildJobs: false > libvpx14 — I had to change to UseMaxBuildJobs: false > > Bill, > I suspect you have the fink make package installed, no? If so, the failures should have been accompanied with an error message of the form... > > make: INTERNAL: Exiting with 1 jobserver tokens available; should be 8! > > This breakage in the parallel make of fink make impacts a slew of fink package builds on machines with more than 2 cores (eg the cmake, libcurl4, texlive-base, etc builds). > A better fix would be to revert your package back to UseMaxBuildJobs: true but hard code' /usr/bin/make' rather than just 'make'. > Jack > ps The issue seems to be limited to running fink make from within perl under fink. I've not been able to reproduce the build failures outside of fink or with just within perl itself. > > Actually, I never saw a problem building gtk+2 on a dual quad-core MacPro but this re-enforces my suspicion that the problem with fink make is a threading race condition that will selectively trigger depending on the number of cores and processor speed of a given machine (meaning that all parallel builds under fink make on 10.11 are fragile). Perhaps a better fix would be to have fink conditionally use /usr/bin/make rather than make for the CompileScript's default_script when executed on 10.11. This would at least automatically solve the issue for all packages using %{default_script}. > We can default to /usr/bin/make on 10.9-10.11 unconditionally and let individual packages that need fink’s make override that in their CompileScripts. That’d be simpler, and more consistent with our general practices with regard to build tools. Then we can add a conditional if Apple decides to stop shipping a /usr/bin/make with Xcode. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel