Re: parallel make bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:10:05 -0700
> 
> 
> Doing make -j8 bootstrap  on a 2 processor machine:
> 
> Directories: /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/. 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./eshell 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./mail 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./language 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./emacs-lisp 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./calc 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./gnus 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./textmodes 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./net 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./mh-e 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./calendar 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./progmodes 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./erc 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./international 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./emulation 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./url 
> /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/./play
> Compiling /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el
> IO error reading /home/dann/emacs/Emacs-CVS/emacs/lisp/subdirs.el: 
> Input/output error
> make[2]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> 
> Is there any reason $(lisp)/subdirs.el should start a recursive make
> instead of just depending on update-subdirs like in the patch below?

Is there a reason for the I/O error?  I don't see why it should
happen; do you?