Re: [TRIVIAL][PATCH] fix parallel builds for aic7xxx]

From: Justin T. Gibbs
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 17:22:55 EST


>
> My compile regression scripts were getting random build failures for
> aic7xxx. The two makefiles could not handle parallel build.
> Occasionally they would succeed...timing dependent. The following two
> patches fix this.
>
> Part 1 - drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/Makefile

I don't understand this patch. It places the .seq file as a target
that is rebuilt by invoking the assembler. The .seq file is not
a generated file.

Can you explain the nature of the failure and why you believe this
fixes the problem (other than - "it seems to work with my testing").
The previous Makefile appears to be perfectly valid.

> Part 2 - drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/Makefile

This also doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Is gmake so
dumb as to not be able to understand that the invocation of
a single target may satisfy multiple dependencies?

--
Justin

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