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Ciaran McCreesh posted on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:13:27 +0000 as excerpted: |
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> Examples will merely be |
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> dismissed as one-off cases that can be worked around, or as relying upon |
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> a string of coincidences that will "obviously" never really happen, |
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> right up until they do, at which point they'll be dismissed with a |
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> WORKSFORME. What you have is a proof that it's broken, which is far |
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> better than an example. |
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Actually, that "dismissed with WORKSFORME" strikes a chord, here. There |
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was a very strange parallel make bug that I filed that was closed with |
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that. I'd have really liked to see someone with some skill tackle it, as |
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that was the only one I've ever seen that had striped fail and working |
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zones, and I've have loved to see some logic as to why... (If -j10 |
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failed, -j3 and -j15 might succeed, -l24 fail again, and -j33 succeed |
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again...) Unfortunately, flameeyes, the only one I know who really gets |
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into such things, was fresh out of the hospital at the time, and I think |
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it was beyond the maintainer's abilities, so WORKSFORME was about the |
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best that could be done. I've long since changed and changed again my |
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makeopts, and don't remember the pkg now, tho I could probably find it in |
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my old bug mail if I needed to. |
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So I gotta admit you have a point, with that one. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |