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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for chasing this down.  It couldn't have been easy.

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:38 PM Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> we have some intermittent build failures that I've tried to debug today. As
> parallelism is involved, I now want to set everything on fire.
>
> Symptom: if we have enough CPUs, the lexer generation is started multiple
> times in parallel for the same outputs. The first platform where we saw
> this was MSVC, but I can also get it on Linux, although the timing is a bit
> tighter there. As a result, the generated header file is broken in various
> ways -- on MSVC, every second token in the enumeration swaps place with its
> comma, on Linux we get two copies of the file interleaved.
>
> According to the fine folks on the #cmake IRC channel, what we're doing
> since b7f890adb "Fix parallel build bugs." is illegal, because output files
> from a custom command are consumed by two different projects -- i.e. rather
> than the intention that the files are built in the custom target, now the
> custom target causes another avenue where a parallel build needs to prepare
> the files.
>
> I have no immediate idea how to write this so it is safe for any number of
> CPUs and portable everywhere, so if anyone does, it'd be nice if they'd fix
> it, because I probably won't get around to it for a while.
>
>    Simon
>
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