[M3devel] non-deterministic behavior on Windows

[jay.krell at cornell.edu]

AV programs are notorious for seemingly nondeterministic problems.  
Sharing violation? Access denied? File not found? Definitely try  
disabling or uninstalling them.

  - Jay (phone)

On Oct 29, 2009, at 12:26 PM, "Randy Coleburn" <rcoleburn at scires.com>  
wrote:

> Something is wrong, but I don't know what yet.
>
> I'm seeing non-deterministic behavior on Windows XP and Vista.
>
> I am building against the head branch.
>
> On multiple runs of each build cycle, I am getting different  
> errors.  That is, sometime a package will fail to build/ship on one  
> build cycle, then it will work on the next.
>
> I've even gone back and tried to rebuild or reship individual  
> packages that failed and most always they will build or ship fine.
>
> For a while, I thought it might be my antivirus program.  But I am  
> getting same behavior on two different machines and each machine has  
> a different AV program.
>
> I'll keep investigating, but something is definitely wrong.
>
> I am going to try uninstalling my AV program on one machine just to  
> see if that makes any difference.
>
> Regards,
> Randy Coleburn