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binutils-mingw-w64 package

  1. Bug #1971901
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1971901

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In , Bshanks-4 (bshanks-4) wrote :

I think the problem is that multiple instances of dlltool may use the same temporary file names depending on the files being built.

With fdeee5d59dca41e3c70c399a939105e39a4b4282, the temporary file prefix will be taken from the .def file, and the .def files may not have unique names. For example, in mingw-w64-crt/lib64, d3dcompiler_{33,34,35,36}.def all have the same LIBRARY name inside: "D3DCompiler.dll" [1].

I've also seen this bug when building Wine (on both Linux and macOS), where multiple dlltools may be launched at the same time to build delay-load and cross libraries for the same DLL (using the same .spec as input).

I'm not sure of the best fix for this: maybe add a command-line option to use a deterministic tmp_prefix, with the caveat that parallel builds may fail?

(As an aside, I'm not sure why one would want deterministic tmp file names. Maybe for reproducible builds?)

[1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mingw-w64/ci/master/tree/mingw-w64-crt/lib64/d3dcompiler_33.def