Re: pkgsrc locking is still broken!

[Roland Illig <rillig%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Raymond Meyer wrote:
> Below is an example of what happens on Sparc Solaris when two processes try to
> build the same package. One process tries to acquire a lock which is held by
> another process, then it exits with an error. What is going on here??
>
> => Lock acquire-depends-lock is held by pid 9860
> => Lock acquire-depends-lock is held by pid 9860
> ===> Installing dependencies for gtk2+-2.10.12
> ==========================================================================
> The supported build options for gtk2+ are:
>
>         cups debug x11
>
> The currently selected options are:
>
>         x11
>
> You can select which build options to use by setting PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS
> or the following variable.  Its current value is shown:
>
>         PKG_OPTIONS.gtk2 (not defined)
>
> ==========================================================================
> /bin/sh: /opt/pkg.obj/x11/gtk2/work.ultra10/.depends: No such file or directory

$ cd pkgsrc/x11/gtk2
$ make help topic=locking
$ make help topic=wrkdir_locktype

(The recommended setting for WRKDIR_LOCKTYPE is "once", not "sleep".)

Roland