Reinhold Kainhofer <reinh...@kainhofer.com> 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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
