CURRENT buildworld make dependency problem breaking parallel buildworld (Was: Re: Buildworld failure with -j24 and ZFS on GPT on Core i7-860 system)

[Matt Thyer]

2010/1/21 Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org>

> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Matt Thyer wrote:
>
>  2010/1/21 Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com>
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>>> Since the ln command didn't print an error message itself, it's unlikely
>>> to
>>> have caused the build to fail.  Try searching for "***" or ":" instead.
>>>
>>
>>
>> [...]
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>> You are correct.  I missed the error the first time.  It is:
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>> make: don't know how to make /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/lib/libmd.a. Stop
>> *** Error code 2
>>
>
> It happens with -j8 also (amd64, UFS).
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> DE
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Subject change to attract a wider audience.

I have yet to perform a binary search to determine when this problem started
but from memory I had no problem on a 32bit CURRENT VM with -j6 on November
22nd 2009.