misc/133264: [build] make buildworld on RELENG_6_4 is broken on SMP machines

[Victor Sudakov]

The following reply was made to PR misc/133264; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Victor Sudakov <sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru>
To: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/133264: [build] make buildworld on RELENG_6_4 is broken on SMP machines
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:12:51 +0700

 John Baldwin wrote:
 > > > tree.  If that is the case, a build without -j4 should also fail and 
 > should 
 > > > show you where you have object files lying around.
 > > 
 > > Building on VMWare ESXi 3.5.0 Update 3 (FreeBSD as a guest OS) still
 > > fails occasionally if more than 1 CPU is allocated to the virtual
 > > machine. The failures are due to processes like sh, sed or cc1 dupming
 > > core on signal 11 during the build.
 > > 
 > > I am using a pristine source tree now.
 > > 
 > > The problem seems to be SMP related because enabling only 1 virtual
 > > CPU removes the problem.
 > > 
 > > Should I open a new PR?
 > 
 > Yes, this seems to be a different problem. :(  Do you see this building other 
 > source trees as well?  (e.g. RELENG_6 or RELENG_7).
 
 RELENG_7_1 is not affected.
 RELENG_6 is not affected.
 
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