Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Refactor flex and bison make rules

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Tom Lane wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > On 11/28/2012 02:14 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> Okapi has been failing sporadically on ecpg, and I wonder if it's
> >> related to this change.
>
> > Well, it looks like the make is broken and missing a clear dependency
> > requirement. I think we need to ask Jeremy to turn off parallel build
> > for okapi.
>
> Yeah, we already know that unpatched make 3.82 has got serious
> parallelism bugs:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2012-09/msg00397.php
>
> I wonder whether adding another .NOTPARALLEL directive would be a better
> idea than insisting people get hold of patched versions.

While we're talking about odd issues that only seem to happen on Okapi,
does anyone know of anything I can do to diagnose the pg_upgrade failure
on the 9.2 branch?  There are no rogue (non-buildfarm-related)
postmaster/postgres processes running on the machine.