Re: [bug-gettext] “distcheck -j” failure caused by ‘update-po’

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> The problem I reported at
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2014-08/msg00004.html>
> seems to be still present with Gettext 0.19.8.1.  Namely “make distcheck -j4”
> occasionally fails in ‘update-po’ while trying to copy files.
> Apparently that doesn’t happen with -j1.

Actually it does happen with -j1 too:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
make[5]: Entering directory 
'/home/ludo/src/guix/guix-0.13.0tp-dirty/_build/sub/po/guix'
cs:
cd ../../../../po/guix && msgmerge  --lang=cs cs.po guix.pot -o cs.new.po
........................................................................... 
done.
da:
cd ../../../../po/guix && msgmerge  --lang=da da.po guix.pot -o da.new.po
....................................................... done.

[...]

pt_BR:
cd ../../../../po/guix && msgmerge  --lang=pt_BR pt_BR.po guix.pot -o 
pt_BR.new.po
........................................................................ done.
sr:
cd ../../../../po/guix && msgmerge  --lang=sr sr.po guix.pot -o sr.new.po
................................................................... done.
mv: ne eblas movi 
'/home/ludo/src/guix/guix-0.13.0tp-dirty/_build/sub/po/guix/sr.new.po' al 
'sr.po': Mankas permeso
msgmerge for sr.po failed: cannot move 
/home/ludo/src/guix/guix-0.13.0tp-dirty/_build/sub/po/guix/sr.new.po to sr.po
make[5]: *** [Makefile:460: sr.po-update] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory 
'/home/ludo/src/guix/guix-0.13.0tp-dirty/_build/sub/po/guix'
make[4]: *** [Makefile:447: update-po] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory 
'/home/ludo/src/guix/guix-0.13.0tp-dirty/_build/sub/po/guix'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:417: distdir] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory 
'/home/ludo/src/guix/guix-0.13.0tp-dirty/_build/sub/po/guix'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:4548: distdir] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ludo/src/guix/guix-0.13.0tp-dirty/_build/sub'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:4647: dist] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ludo/src/guix/guix-0.13.0tp-dirty/_build/sub'
make: *** [Makefile:4659: distcheck] Error 1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I don’t see why only ‘sr.po’ is causing this problem.

And “make dist” alone passes.  Weird!

Ludo’.