Re: [PATCH] avoid parallel build failures

2012-04-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/12/2012 07:00 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > > Thanks for the speedy review. > "make distcheck" is running now. > Feel free to push once that passes. Thanks again for tackling this, Stefano

Re: [PATCH] avoid parallel build failures

2012-04-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Stefano Lattarini wrote: ... >> a subsequent "make -j3" would create the missing file. >> That was because help2man would invoke t/wrap/aclocal.in and >> t/wrap/automake.in, each of which would require aclocal and >> automake, yet those two files weren't guaranteed to be created. >> Add explicit de

Re: [PATCH] avoid parallel build failures

2012-04-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Jim, thanks for the patches. On 04/12/2012 06:11 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > >>> IMHO, there is only one way to work around this: don't distribute >>> those two files, i.e., generate them at build time. >>> That means either automake distributes the help2man script >>> (as coreutils does) or it a

Re: [PATCH] avoid parallel build failures

2012-04-12 Thread Jim Meyering
t;>> build -- how foolish. Do you think this issue warrants another beta >>> release? >>> >>>> I tracked them down: >>>> >>>> From 3fcf1fe611140eb6677d5893719bec1d96f106db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >>>> From: Jim Meyering >&

Re: [PATCH] avoid parallel build failures

2012-04-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
ants another beta >> release? >> >>> I tracked them down: >>> >>> From 3fcf1fe611140eb6677d5893719bec1d96f106db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >>> From: Jim Meyering >>> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:25:48 +0200 >>> Subject: [PATCH] avoid parallel build

Re: [PATCH] avoid parallel build failures

2012-04-12 Thread Jim Meyering
1140eb6677d5893719bec1d96f106db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Jim Meyering >> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:25:48 +0200 >> Subject: [PATCH] avoid parallel build failures >> > Minor tiny nit (feel free to ignore it): could you prepend the summary > line with either "

Re: [PATCH] avoid parallel build failures

2012-04-11 Thread Stefano Lattarini
t; Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:25:48 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] avoid parallel build failures > Minor tiny nit (feel free to ignore it): could you prepend the summary line with either "build:" or "fixup:", so that the guidelines in HACKING are followed? > A parallel build

[PATCH] avoid parallel build failures

2012-04-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Surprised by parallel build failures, I tracked them down: >From 3fcf1fe611140eb6677d5893719bec1d96f106db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:25:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] avoid parallel build failures A parallel build would fail when two concurrent sub-m