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On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:15:25 -0400 |
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> Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Alan McKinnon |
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> > <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:00:34 +0200 |
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> > > Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > > Michael Mol writes: |
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> > > > |
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> > > > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick |
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> > > > > <neil@××××××××××.uk <mailto:neil@××××××××××.uk>> wrote: |
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> > > > |
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> > > > > Instead we get, try USE="-*" :P |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > "Try MAKEOPTS='-j1'" |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Which in fact often helps... especially for me, I am using |
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> > > > MAKEOPTS="-j --load=4", and I often experience build problems that |
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> > > > are not reproducible with a fixed number of jobs, regardless how |
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> > > > large. |
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> > > Yes indeed, and that one is good advice. |
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> > > |
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> > > Not every Makefile out there is safe for -j > 1, so running it as |
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> > > one job is valid debugging. It's the correct thing to do with weird |
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> > > build failures as it tests if a specific condition is true or not. |
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> > Yeah, except I've already gone that route, or otherwise ruled it out, |
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> > before I ask. That's why it's grating. (Even more grating when I have |
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> > to spend the time building a package again, just to convince someone |
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> > that, no, it's not MAKEOPTS that's the problem.) |
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> > It's like "Have you tried turning it off and back on again". |
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> I learned that one the hard way :-) |
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> Now when I submit support posts, I try emulate what bgo asks: |
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> 1. nature of problem |
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> 2. what have I tried already |
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> 3. steps to reproduce |
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> 4. result gotten |
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> 5. expected result |
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> 6. relevant config files and settings |
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> Tends to weed out a lot of the silly auto-bot style answers |
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I'm going through one on launchpad right now where I indicated that I |
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couldn't get beeps out of xterm, but I could get sound from sound-emitting |
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websites. (Trying to get x11 bell to function via PulseAudio via work |
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laptop) |
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First response? "Needs information: Can you get sound from other sound |
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apps?" |
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#pulseaudio simply ignored me. And googling turns up that Lennart hates the |
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X server as being a funnel for sound events. I was physically twitching by |
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the time I gave up... |
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