Subject: bug#10975: 'make dist-gz dist-xz' fails

From: Tim Landscheidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:53:10 +0000

Olaf Lenz <[email-masked]> wrote:

> [...]
> The problem seems to be a race condition.
> "make dist-bzip2" populates the distribution dir, tars it and deletes it
> after 5 seconds. During that time "make dist-xz" has started and noticed
> that the distdir already exists. Unfortunately, it is deleted while
> dist-xz is still packing.

For a possible workaround, see
<URI:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/4940>.
I agree that it would be nice to fix this properly.

Tim