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

From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-10 09:24:27

Jurko Gospodnetić 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.
>> 
> [...snipped...]
>> I don't really understand what happens, if I retry the build, it
>> works, or if it fails, it does it
>> in another point completely which then succeeds when trying again.
> 
>    Yup. I've noticed this too. But was hoping this was just something
> related to some quite-complex build I noticed it in and did not find the
> time to look into it.
> 
>    Btw. I noticed it on Windows XP with a native Windows bjam build
> (i.e. not cygwin).

I had an off-list bug report from Adam Merz (including -d+12 output), and I
plan to look into this. I'm hoping it's just missed dependency somewhere.

- Volodya