Note for English Readers

If I write the articles in Indonesian, I will write a summary in English so that you can read my articles too. After you read the summary and you feel that you need more information about that, please do not hesitate to contact me via e-mail that can be found in my profile.

Thank you for reading my blogs.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Beware when compiling using -jN option

When I compiled lilypond-2.15.36, I found this error:
cat out/feta-braces-a.otf-table out/feta-braces-b.otf-table out/feta-braces-c.otf-table out/feta-braces-d.otf-table out/feta-braces-e.otf-table out/feta-braces-f.otf-table out/feta-braces-g.otf-table out/feta-braces-h.otf-table out/feta-braces-i.otf-table > out/emmentaler-brace.otf-table
echo '(design_size . 20)' > out/emmentaler-brace.otf-gtable
echo feta-braces-d feta-braces-c feta-braces-i feta-braces-e feta-braces-h feta-braces-a feta-braces-g feta-braces-f feta-braces-b > out/emmentaler-brace.subfonts
printf 'emmentaler-brace' > out/emmentaler-brace.fontname
cd ./out && /usr/bin/fontforge -script emmentaler-11.pe
Copyright (c) 2000-2011 by George Williams.
 Executable based on sources from 13:48 GMT 22-Feb-2011-ML-TtfDb.
 Library based on sources from 13:48 GMT 22-Feb-2011.
Cannot open /usr/local/src/Music/lilypond-2.15.36/build/mf/out/feta11.pfb
The requested file, feta11.pfb, does not exist
MergeFonts: Can't find font: feta11.pfb
Called from...
 emmentaler-11.pe: line 17
make[1]: *** [out/emmentaler-11.svg] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs..... 

This error is caused by the use of -jN option when compiling lilypond (I used this instruction: make -j4 all). I used that option in order to maximize CPU cores utilization, however, this option can lead the compilation process into race condition. In the case of lilypond compilation, feta11.pfb is needed by one of compilation thread/stream before other thread/stream compiles it. When I omitted the -jN option, the compilation was successful.

In conclusion, be careful when we use the -jN option. This option can make the compilation process faster because the compilation process uses more than one CPU core, however, the race condition can occur in some cases.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Linux Kernel 3.3.1 & AMD Catalyst

I just upgraded the kernel to 3.3.1 (my own compilation) then tried to recompile the fglrx modules for this new kernel. No problem in compilation, as well as in use. I have tried AMD Catalyst 12.2 and 12.3, both are no problem on my system with kernel 3.3.1. If you want to upgrade your kernel to 3.3.1 and AMD Catalyst 12.2 or 12.3, you can upgrade them ... without problem, hopefully.