Re: error writing to stdout

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2018-12-12 at 14:26 CST, Mike Pumford wrote:

> Not sure if this is a netbsd issue or a pkgsrc issue.
> 
> I'm seeing this increasingly as a failure when doing pkgsrc builds.
> Universally it seems to be thunderbird and firefox that blow up. gmake may
> be implicated.
> 
> This is from a failing firefox build.
> 
> gmake[4]: Leaving directory
> '/pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/www/firefox/default/build/config/makefiles/xpidl'
> gmake[4]: write error: stdout
> gmake[3]: *** [Makefile:15: export] Error 1

I used to see this error a lot when running bulk builds where the
output was being logged to an NFS share.  Switching it to a local file
system not only improved performance, it made this problem disappear.

I never figured out why exactly it was happening.

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Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com