Race condition between hotspot build/import

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Fri Sep 14 05:46:30 PDT 2012


On 2012-09-14 14:01, David Holmes wrote:
>
>>> Seems I had a fclone misfire and ended up with an inconsistent
>>> build-infra forest. Once that was fixed the build problem went away.
>>>
>>> However I still have this problem in my jdk8 forest, even applying the
>>> above patch. Was there something else needed to deal with these races?
>>
>> I've never seen this actually happening, the patch above was more of a
>> theoretical guard, as a result of real problem in a submake.
>>
>> Do you run with "make -jN"? Do you have MFLAGS or MAKEFLAGS set in your
>> environment, setting -j?
>
>
> I don't set anything special in that regard. It's obvious from the 
> logs that the build of the two components is overlapping though.

It the racing builds happening even though you fixed the fclone 
inconsistency? Are you seeing it every time you build?

/Magnus



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