Re: parallel make failure

On 11/09/2011 11:35 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> We still seem to have some dependency issues with parallel builds. I
>> just got this on a fresh F16 box against git tip, when running "make -j 3":
>> ccache gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
>> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels
>> -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing
>> -fwrapv -g -pthread -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE
>> -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -DECPG_COMPILE -I../include
>> -I../../../../src/interfaces/ecpg/include -I. -I. -DMAJOR_VERSION=4
>> -DMINOR_VERSION=7 -DPATCHLEVEL=0 -I../../../../src/include
>> -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/include/libxml2 -c -o parser.o parser.c -MMD
>> -MP -MF .deps/parser.Po
>> parser.c:25:21: fatal error: preproc.h: No such file or directory
>> compilation terminated.
> I think you have a broken version of "make". ecpg/preproc/Makefile
> is perfectly clear that parser.o depends on preproc.h.

Stock distro build:

GNU Make 3.82
Built for i386-redhat-linux-gnu

It's not repeatable, at least not easily.

I'll let it go, but I won't be surprised if we see sporadic reports of this.

cheers

andrew