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Bug 351559 (parallel-make)

Summary: [TRACKER] packages failing to use parallel make
Product: Quality Assurance Reporter: Dane Smith (RETIRED) <c1pher>
Component: TrackersAssignee: Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: QA CC: bertrand, binki, jstein, nikoli, pageexec, polynomial-c, sam, vlad
Priority: High Keywords: Tracker
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Troubleshooting_parallel_builds
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654178
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 259117, 295724, 299224, 312407, 343617, 410065, 413581, 458968, 483948, 493950, 494244, 500574, 500752, 509498, 514092, 554464, 654130, 687924, 752042, 754321, 775107, 798657, 837875, 843458, 870196, 879547, 879847, 880057, 880151, 880159, 880169, 880189, 880319, 880321, 880323, 880327, 880367, 880371, 880599, 880621, 880921, 881009, 881033, 883045, 889569, 895704, 911843, 913354, 914429, 915679, 919576, 921613, 922896, 924672, 926513, 246863, 259033, 265188, 266739, 326493, 333049, 351592, 352119, 359123, 373473, 386579, 405029, 427844, 434618, 469032, 481558, 490386, 494096, 560978, 561378, 569702, 574282, 579700, 594578, 604018, 612288, 621486, 635100, 650230, 670792, 674078, 674142, 684444, 686304, 689730, 690150, 696934, 699902, 701878, 701894, 711200, 720980, 722126, 743292, 765799, 770202, 776982, 782553, 814326, 827173, 831713, 832214, 834870, 835920, 836167, 836557, 843584, 844133, 855392, 856430, 859169, 860444, 870109, 879543, 880053, 880165, 880195, 880199, 880325, 880347, 880359, 881031, 881813, 883063, 883157, 883611, 883621, 887391, 888709, 889988, 904338, 906155, 906965, 907718, 908550, 908794, 909205, 909419, 913003, 913231, 913895, 915953, 918125, 918402, 918511, 921192, 921535, 921680, 923323, 924045, 924370    
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Description Dane Smith (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-01-13 13:58:06 UTC
Tracker bug discussion only. No package specific discussion please.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2011-01-13 19:00:57 UTC
what exactly is the point of this tracker ?  how is having this information useful in any way ?
Comment 2 Dane Smith (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-01-13 19:28:34 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> what exactly is the point of this tracker ?  how is having this information
> useful in any way ?
> 

The tinderbox will be reporting them soon hopefully and I felt this was the simple way to keep track of them.
Comment 3 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-10-09 15:55:11 UTC
This is fixed in farstream 0.2.1 btw
Comment 4 Nathan Phillip Brink (binki) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-12-04 18:28:55 UTC
Does this tracker cover build failures caused by using parallel make? The wording of the summary seems to indicate it is only for packages which ignore MAKEOPTS completely, which use -j1, or which produce the “make jobserver unavailable” message.
Comment 5 Dane Smith (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-01-08 01:42:48 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Does this tracker cover build failures caused by using parallel make? The
> wording of the summary seems to indicate it is only for packages which
> ignore MAKEOPTS completely, which use -j1, or which produce the “make
> jobserver unavailable” message.

This should be used for any parallel make related issues. If the build fails with -jX where X > 1, they should be tracked here. Also, ebuilds which are forcing -j1 aren't "fixing" the issue. They're merely hacking around it. We should probably be tracking those here as well.
Comment 6 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2020-11-14 14:24:43 UTC
This tracker is not useful anymore. Discussed today on #gentoo-qa

qgrep  "j1" | wc -l 
returns 1243 hits (with a few false posisitves) 

Parallel build bugs linked here belong to one of the two types

a) it is not fixed with -j1 and the package is broken and should be fixed in short time. 
b) we have a forced -j1 in the ebuild and can track it better with a qa script
Comment 7 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2020-11-14 23:35:37 UTC
Reopened on request.
Please collect knowledge on troubleshooting in the wiki
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Troubleshooting_parallel_builds