Re: git: f98beca9766c - main - devel/glib20: add DOCS option

From: Adriaan de Groot <adridg_at_freebsd.org> 
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 23:10:05 +0200 :

> On Thursday, 14 April 2022 23:41:59 CEST Dima Panov wrote:
> > Moin!
> > BTW, even today’s released 2.72.1 is affected :(
> 
> Adding Antoine_at_ to the CCs because it doesn't build on the cluster (for i386). 
> There's a sort-of-related PR
> 	
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263307
> 
> 
> I say "sort-of-related" because that's more about port options than the actual 
> build, but it's clear there are weirdnesses in this build. I can't reproduce 
> any of the build failures: 16 cores doesn't seem to be the right number to 
> trigger the failure in building targets in the wrong order.

I got some example failures on a 16 core Cortext-A72 system
(HoneyComb). But some bulk builds worked and others failed.
There were significant variations in what other builders
in the bulk build were doing over the time frame --and the
contexts all had ALLOW_PARALLEL_JOBS= in use, allowing
large load averages relative to the core count.

If I had to guess the working builds had higher load averages
over the relevant time frame: The failing bulk builds had far
fewer ports to build overall. But I did not monitor the
details at the time.

The HoneyComb was running the same FreeBSD version in all the
examples.

> I'm going to try 
> to learn enough Meson to hit this thing with a hammer.
> 

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com