Re: 2.15.15 doesn't build on Mageia

[Julien Rioux]

On 02/11/2011 4:04 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Julien Rioux<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > On 27/10/2011 7:01 AM, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
> > > LANG= makeinfo --enable-encoding -I
> > > /home/spuhler/MageiaSVN/lilypond/BUILD/lilypond-2.15.15/Documentation -I.
> > > -I./out --no-split --no-headers --output out/contributor.txt
> > > out/contributor.texi
> > > out/contributor.texi: No such file or directory
> > > make[1]: *** [out/contributor.txt] Error 1
> > > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> >
> > This stems from the rule on lines 73-74 of
> > stepmake/stepmake/texinfo-rules.make
> >
> > $(outdir)/%.txt: $(outdir)/%.texi $(outdir)/version.itexi
> > $(outdir)/weblinks.itexi
> >          $(MAKEINFO) -I$(src-dir) -I$(outdir) --no-split --no-headers
> > --output $@ $<
> >
> > The dependency is correct (it includes $(outdir)/%.texi which
> > evaluates to out/contributor.texi) so `make' knows that it needs this
> > file. Also, `make' seems to think that the file exists, but `makeinfo'
> > reports that it does not.
> >
> > A couple things to check:
> > 1) Does the file out/contributor.texi exists or not?
> > 2) Do you have any file out/contributor.dep lying around and if yes,
> > can you report its content?
>
> "Waiting for unfinished jobs" is a pointer to multiple jobs.  If there
> are rules creating or deleting this file or other sideeffects or
> temporaries without listing them explicitly, make sees no reason not to
> run the actions of several rules in parallel.

Sure, he's running parallel make. However there is no word on whether 
the experienced failure depends on running parallel make, or if it also 
happens when running sequential.

> And it would seem that it ran one rule that removed out/contributor.texi
> at an unexpected point of time.

That's just one possibility. There's little point postulating, instead 
the original poster could provide a bit more information.

--
Julien