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
Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 04/12/2012 10:24 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> >>> On 04/11/2012 09:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: Surprised by parallel build failures, >>> Oops *blush* I must admit that, while I usually run the testsuite with >>> a high degree of para

Re: [PATCH] avoid parallel build failures

2012-04-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/12/2012 10:24 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> On 04/11/2012 09:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> Surprised by parallel build failures, >>> >> Oops *blush* I must admit that, while I usually run the testsuite with >> a high degree of parallelism, I also usually run the bu

Re: [PATCH] avoid parallel build failures

2012-04-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 04/11/2012 09:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Surprised by parallel build failures, >> > Oops *blush* I must admit that, while I usually run the testsuite with > a high degree of parallelism, I also usually run the build proper with > a simple "make all", because that i

Re: [PATCH] avoid parallel build failures

2012-04-11 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/11/2012 09:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Surprised by parallel build failures, > Oops *blush* I must admit that, while I usually run the testsuite with a high degree of parallelism, I also usually run the build proper with a simple "make all", because that is so fast anyway. So I ended up rel