Hi, Recently we observed a strange failure while packaging GRUB 2.12 for our distro. The translation file generation process might fail if parallelism was enabled (e.g. `make -j', or with `-j16' and larger numbers).
We found that the build always failed whilst generating de_CH translation data from de.po, complaining about syntax errors or a premature EOF whilst processing the strings. The exact line numbers msgfilter complained about were random. If we remove de_CH from linguas.sh, the build passes every time, even with parallelism enabled - of course, with parallelism disabled, we did not observe this issue. This issue has been reproduced on: - AOSC OS, the aforementioned distro that I work on. - Debian Bookworm. I propose the following solutions: - Tell the distro maintainers not to use -j. - Patch po/gettext-patches to add a .NOTPARALLEL directive in Makefile.in.in. We have opted to temporarily disable parallelism in po/Makefile, since we could not find the culprit to this issue. Regards, Xinhui _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
