In some cases when building with parallelism (make -jN), build fails because the directory where output files are supposed to be does not exist. In particular, when make decides to build virtfs-proxy-helper.1 before other files in fsdev/, build will fail with the following error:
perl -Ww -- BUILDDIR/scripts/texi2pod.pl BUILDDIR/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.texi fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.pod && pod2man --utf8 --section=1 --center=" " --release=" " fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.pod > fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.1 opening "fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.pod": No such file or directory Create the `fsdev' subdir the same way as other "conditional" subdirs (eg, dtc or pixman) are created in configure. Might be better to extract all dirs from $tools and other common vars and run mkdir on all of these, but this needs some review/restructuring first. Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> --- configure | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 23dbaaf..203084a 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -3576,6 +3576,7 @@ if test "$softmmu" = yes ; then if test "$cap" = yes && test "$linux" = yes && test "$attr" = yes ; then virtfs=yes tools="$tools fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper\$(EXESUF)" + mkdir -p fsdev else if test "$virtfs" = yes; then error_exit "VirtFS is supported only on Linux and requires libcap-devel and libattr-devel" -- 1.7.10.4