On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Hello > > Downstream on Gentoo we see some package having problems at "make > install" phase using -j2 or more. Reporting to upstream, some of them > told us that they think parallel *installation* is not supported: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28108#c1
This is bogus. The problem is that the Makefile has src before libltdl in SUBDIRS. That can't possibly work since things in src need to link to -ltdl. Trying to build the vanilla tarball, it fails even on make -j1. My guess is that the developer has libltdl-devel installed and didn't notice it wasn't linking to the one in the tree. You may just not want to build an ancient canberra, though. > 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. > I would like then to confirm if parallel installation is supported and > supposed to work or we should force it to be non-parallel downstream. I've used parallel install with libtoolized packages for years. I've never had bugs with it. I work on the xserver, which has tons of interdependent libtool libraries, and I've never seen a problem like this. -- Dan _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
