Hi! On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 03:58:42PM +0800, Xinhui Yang via Grub-devel wrote: > >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.
I've seen this before when hacking on the Debian packaging too. IIRC it's because the po build does not use separated-out build dirs like the binary builds, and that would the right way to fix this. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
