Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:29:55 -0500 | From | Michael Elizabeth Chastain <> | Subject | Re: seen only once: corrupt modversions.h built in 2.2.13 |
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Hi Ron,
This looks like a simple parallelism bug with "make dep" and CONFIG_MODVERSIONS. When you run "make dep" with parallel mkdep's, all of them are updating include/linux/modversions.h simultaneously.
This is a subtle and easy-to-make Makefile mistake: having something in a Makefile which modifies a global state file outside of the current directory. Multiple "-j" invocations race for the state file.
> 'just posted this in case somebody else sees it as well....
Good report. As Alan Cox says, a lot of bugs manifest in a "distributed" fashion so more specimens are always welcome, even if no one can fix them right now.
Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mailto:mec@shout.net> "love without fear"
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