Bug#595260: salome: FTBFS in parallel: cleanup/doc-installation race

[Adam C Powell IV]

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 13:36 -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Thanks Aaron, I noticed this.
> 
> No problem; thanks for the quick response.
> 
> > What's the best way around it, while preserving the performance of a
> > parallel build?
> 
> Declaring
> 
> .NOTPARALLEL:
> 
> in debian/rules should cause make to run serially when working off of
> it but still pass -j to upstream's makefiles.  Also, make supports
> order-only prerequisites (a relatively new feature, but available even
> in stable); if you declare
> 
> build-indep-stamp: | build-arch-stamp
> 
> it will take care to complete build-arch-stamp before starting on
> build-indep-stamp when building both but still allow building just
> build-indep-stamp.

Thanks, these are really good to know!

> > Ah, just hit on a solution: I'll have the documentation build in a
> > separate directory.
> 
> That sounds like it should work as well, thanks.

Yeah I think I'll stick with this, it seems more "elegant" and in
keeping with the new build style.

-Adam
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