Re: About libtool supporting parallel "make install"

[Pacho Ramos]

El vie, 18-03-2011 a las 13:40 -0700, Dan Nicholson escribió:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Ralf Wildenhues
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > * Dan Nicholson wrote on Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:47:38PM CET:
> >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Pacho Ramos <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644896#c2
> >>
> >> This seems more legitimate. I looked at the Makefile.am's and they
> >> look reasonable to me. You have two libraries, one is in
> >> lib_LTLIBRARIES and the other is in pkglib_LTLIBRARIES. The pkglib one
> >> depends on the lib one.
> >>
> >> It seems that make is running install-libLTLIBRARIES and
> >> install-pkglibLTLIBRARIES in parallel. Each one of these these rules
> >> installs the libraries serially in a loop. However, if libtool is
> >> relinking the libraries, it really needs to wait until the
> >> prerequisite libraries from _other_ rules are installed. I'd bet if
> >> you do this:
> >>
> >> echo "install-pkglibLTLIBRARIES: install-libLTLIBRARIES" >>
> >> src/backend/xml/Makefile
> >>
> >> it will work again. This seems like a bug in automake's libtool
> >> support to me, but I don't know how to fix it.
> >
> > Yes, it's a bug in Automake/Libtool, but the workaround isn't quite
> > correct: you'd need something like
> >
> > install-pkglibLTLIBRARIES = install-pkglibLTLIBRARIES
> > $(install-pkglibLTLIBRARIES): install-libLTLIBRARIES
> >
> > because your proposed workaround will cause automake to not emit its
> > install-pkglibLTLIBRARIES rule at all.  Yes, depending on automake not
> > seeing through variables when determining target names is ugly, I know.
> > (It's also so widespread by now that we can't easily change that issue.)
> 
> Oh, I see what you mean. If you add it to the generated Makefile, it
> would work, though.
> 
> > I've posted some ideas to fix the original bug before, on an automake or
> > libtool list; but nothing finished.  :-/
> 
> I'd never encountered this issue before, but I hope it is something
> you can fix. I more or less understand how autoconf and libtool work,
> but I've never deleved into automake.
> 
> --
> Dan
> 

Then, as the bug looks to be in automake/libtool, there is no much
gnucash can do to fix this as they don't provide generated Makefile
(only Makefile.am and .in), no?

Thanks :-)