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

On 11/28/12 6:01 PM, 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.

We could put

ifeq ($(MAKE_VERSION),3.82)
.NOTPARALLEL:
endif

into Makefile.global.