Re: MAKE_JOBS_SAFE= yes for ham/gnuradio-doxygen

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> writes:

> On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 09:37:36PM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
>> In cases where MAKE_JOBS_SAFE is set to "no", I'd like to know:
>> 
>> - What are the symptoms?
>> - Any specific error messages?
>> - Has it been reported upstream?
>
> I think this puts the burden on the messanger, where it should be on the
> one trying to fix (and claim parallel jobs safety) instead. I bet we
> get "fails randomly" in 95% of the cases if this would be enforced. This
> kind of failure is not like a compiler error message and hard to diagnose
> or even properly describe.

Mostly agreed, but we have the problem of one person seeing a failure,
and another having 'works for me' and removing it.  Perhaps we should
just not worry as it's easy to add back for the person where it fails,
and then it's recent.