Re: [Boost-build] Errors in windows with multiple parallel jobs

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Errors in windows with multiple parallel jobs
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-29 13:17:40

On Friday 29 August 2008 00:03:16 Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Jurko Gospodnetiæ
> <jurko.gospodnetic_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >  Hi Felipe.
> >
> >> I'm using a quad-core machine and using the last bjam from svn trunk
> >> (r48043).
> >> And as long as I use -j in bjam I have occasional problems where
> >> a install action tries to copy a file and fails, where the just before
> >> process creates that file. Also when trying to create lib files.
> >> I'm using windows vista x64.
> >> When I don't use -j it works fine.
> >
> >  I believe this should be fixed now in the trunk. Could you please check
> > whether the latest trunk version of bjam works for you?
> 
> Yes, but it is rebuilding *a lot* of things that don't need to be rebuild.
> Anything I do, I end up building at least 188 targets (from a total
> of around 1200).

Are you still having this problem? If so, can you trim it down to manageable
size (e.g. building in one directory, or a specific target), and post the output
of "bjam ... -d+12", along with names of the files that should not be rebuilt,
and are rebuilt.

- Volodya