Parallel build, and parallel install, is not hard, in the sense that it usually doesn’t give you new, undocumented challenges; it actually seems to be repeating the same problems over and over again. Sometimes the exact same problem — as it seems Ruby upstream applied the stupid Funtoo patch instead of mine, and that made it fail again on a parallel install. Luckily I was able to fix it again for good, and now is sent to the ruby-core mailing list.
Another issue came up today, when I noticed a bug for OpenSC which turned out to be a parallel install failure. While Michelangelo’s quick fix is actually a smart way to deal with it quickly, I’ve preferred applying the correct fix, which I also sent to the opensc-devel mailing list.
So this is just a quick post to remember you all: if you see failures such as “file already exists”, remember you’re in front of a parallel install failure, and you can see my previous blog to understand how to fix it properly.
