I have a reproducible problem that I don't understand. I've elided my actual build directory name below because it's not important.
$ echo '@c' >> doc/groff.texi $ (cd build && make -j all check) make check-am LANG=C \ LC_ALL=C \ makeinfo -o doc/groff.info --enable-encoding -I.../groff/build/../doc .../groff/build/../doc/groff.texi make[1]: Entering directory '.../groff/build' make make[2]: Entering directory '.../groff/build' LANG=C \ LC_ALL=C \ makeinfo -o doc/groff.info --enable-encoding -I.../groff/build/../doc .../groff/build/../doc/groff.texi makeinfo: rename doc/groff.info failed: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [Makefile:12224: doc/groff.info] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '.../groff/build' make[1]: *** [Makefile:10129: check-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '.../groff/build' make: *** [Makefile:10132: check] Error 2 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Essential parts of this include: (1) I have to actually modify groff.texi. Touching its timestamp does not suffice. (2) I have to call the "all" _and_ "check" targets. (3) I have to use the "-j" flag. What I think is happening is that make(1) is forking off a job for each of the "all" and "check" targets, and they are racing against each other. One of them always loses, so I always get the error. I see Ingo is feeling feisty, so I'll add this: please don't advise me to not use -j. Our *.am files work fine with it in most respects. In a minor mystery, I don't know what's generating that ENOENT diagnostic; on my system, makeinfo is a symlink to texi2any (as it is for most people, I expect), and in that Perl script I can't find a line corresponding to it. Any ideas? Regards, Branden
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