Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk/platform

[Matthias Scheler <tron%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 10:29:58PM +0200, Adam Ciarciński wrote:
> >> I don't have many objections to the change itself (other than
> >> formatting commit messages to <80 characters), but this really should
> >> not be done during a freeze, especially as it changes the SDK path on
> >> Mavericks hosts with the latest XCode.
> > 
> > But I object to the change. I've changed pkgsrc to avoid "/bin/ksh" under
> > Mac OS X Mavericks for a very specific reason. And unless somebody can
> > confirm that it nows works stable on builds with "MAKE_JOBS=8" on an eight
> > core machine (eight cores, not eight hyper threads) it should remain
> > disabled.
> 
> I built on Mavericks 8 and 16 jobs just fine (8 cores, 16 hyper-threads).
> I always had WRAPPER_BIN_SH=/bin/ksh in my mk.conf. What was your problem?

I got intermittent but frequent segmentation failts during pkgsrc builds.
I was able to track them down to "/bin/ksh" crashing frequently. Using
"/bin/sh" as the wrapper shell fixed this. This was however in August
last year. Apple might have fixed that problem in the meantime.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                 https://zhadum.org.uk/