Re: pcp updates: qa, build tweaks

[fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [...]
> commit e8e889bdfa3201161b3923b975fa004399d8f902
> Author: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Jul 16 10:48:18 2014 +1000
>
>     Attempt to workaround a GNU/Hurd build issue for Svante
>     
>     Problem report is as follows, the pmieconf make rules are all
>     a bit wierd, with the subdir descent making things awkward.
>     
>     From: Svante Signell <svante.signell@xxxxxxxxx>
>     "Due to some yet unknown reason the second time pmieconf is creating
>     the file 'local' it fails with the fname being empty in rules.c. The
>     attached patch makefile.patch is a work-around for this problem by not
>     deleting that file the second time.
> [...]

Another factor might be make -j parallelism; pmieconf/GNUmakefile
contains a .NOTPARALLEL: directive to pessimize that, but
GNUmakefile.rules doesn't.


- FChE