Re: Problem with make

[David Kastrup]

Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Thursday, 22. September 2011, 01:55:15 schrieb David Kastrup:
>> > yep, happens about 10% of the time for me.  Running "make" again
>> > fixes it.  (almost always -- the chance of two failing runs is
>> > about 1%.  That's happened twice to me that I can recall)
>> > - - -
>> > 
>> > happens to me nearly every time i make. You get news.tely and
>> > authors.texi. Failing. Run make again and it's fine. Never had two on
>> > the trot like graham.
> [..]
>> That points to either a problem with parallel make processes, or more
>> likely a time stamp resolution problem.
>
> I only get such a problem if I call "make -j3" (or something other
> >1).  I have never experienced it with "make", so my guess would be
> that the dependencies  of our texinfo files are not complete.

That would probably mean that one make process determines that a
dependency is available and up to date and proceeds on this assumption,
and then another make process removes that file as a sideeffect of
building a different target before the first make process has finished
working with the file.

-- 
David Kastrup