"Works in my environment."
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My way: wrap it in a shell script and put a condition if exit status is not 0 then say "try clear the cache and run it again"
AKA - the test suites at half the companies I've worked. Except they use a loop with retries as well
Einstein did say...
Ever work?
I mean
maybe
Not with code, but i write a lot of LaTeX and that often starts working on second compilation
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If that doesn’t work, restart it and then try.
Well if it doesn't work once try again if it doesn't work twice or thrice maybe there's a problem. If it works it is resolved ... for now, least effort solution.
I only do it because it works!
on xcode i would say it has a 50% chance of working