siliconman:

In article <00c101c91801$b08eeb00$6507a80a@pdimov2>, "Peter Dimov" <pdimov@pdimov.com> wrote:

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Do you have an idea why your 5.6.4 and 5.8.2 tests fail (apparently at random) with errors like:

Fatal: Unable to open file 'turboc.$ln'

It seems that the compiler creates these temporary files and if two instances of the compiler are working at the same time (I'm currently testing on a quad core machine) in the same directory that those versions of the compiler isn't able to handle this situation. I'm actually retooling my build systems, so I was going to pass this task back to a single core machine even thought that would mean longer turn around time. Alternatively, I could have two machines running tests and have siliconman-legacy with 5.64 and 5.82 on the single core machine and siliconman with 5.9.3 and 6.10 with the faster machine.

A quick temporary fix - until one of your permanent measures are put in place - might be to just disable one of 5.64 and 5.82; that way we'll at least have one set of reliable results instead of two that are unfortunately of little use in their present state.