GNU bug report logs - #16485
Using libtool in BusyBox

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: "Gary V. Vaughan" <gary <at> gnu.org>
To: Joachim Bartz <joachim.bartz <at> t-online.de>
Cc: 16485 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16485: Acknowledgement (Using libtool in BusyBox)
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:25:08 +1300

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hi Joachim,

Glad you solved it :)

On Jan 19, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Joachim Bartz <joachim.bartz <at> t-online.de> wrote:
> And: It works, all modules are installed correctly.
> 
> 
> But what I don¹t understand is, why does libtool sometimes fail and
> sometimes not.
> I expect a deterministic behavior - always.

It's probably a timestamp resolution issue, or a race condition of some sort - the kind of bug that can take hundreds of hours to pin down.  Patches welcome of course ;-)

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, attachment)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.