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

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Ludo,

> 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

Now, this sounds like a bug: po/Makefile should not prevent "make distcheck"
from passing.

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

Can you please open a ticket at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gettext
and attach the files Makefile, Makevars, da.po, sr.po ? So that someone can
analyze this.

Bruno