Subject: bug#18436: closed (Re: bug#18436: Error building 8.23 with builddir != srcdir and --disable-dependency-tracking)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:36:03 +0000

Your bug report

#18436: Error building 8.23 with builddir != srcdir and --disable-dependency-tracking

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#18436: Error building 8.23 with builddir != srcdir and --disable-dependency-tracking
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
To: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], "Daniel Richard G." <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 23:35:44 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 09/19/2014 08:19 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 09/19/2014 06:36 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH] build: fix dependency issues with man page generation
>>
>> * .gitignore: Remove reference to no longer generated make file.
>> * configure.ac: Don't bother generating placeholder make file.
>> * man/local.mk: Hardcode the man page deps list for normal builds
>> to be compatible with all make implementations and configure options.
>> Note in SINGLE_BINARY mode, all man pages will be generated on
>> any change to the coreutils binary, but development will generally
>> not be done in this mode, so this shouldn't be an issue.
> 
> It is:
> 
>   $ make clean
>   $ make
>   $ make syntax-check -j
>   ...
>   help2man: can't get `--help' info from man/coreutils.td/coreutils
>   Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
>   prohibit_inttostr_without_use
>   prohibit_jm_in_m4
>   make: *** [man/coreutils.1] Error 127
>   make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> 
> This only goes away without -j here.

Oops, all that was missing for that case was
an entry for coreutils.1 in the static dependency list.
Pity we can't use a GNU pattern rule here,
and portable suffix rules can't have prerequisites.
Note pattern rules seem widely supported, which is tempting.

Anyway I added coreutils.1 to the list and pushed.

thanks for the review,
Pádraig.

Subject: Error building 8.23 with builddir != srcdir and --disable-dependency-tracking
From: "Daniel Richard G." <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:57:24 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

I normally build with --disable-dependency-tracking to speed up builds,
and also build out-of-tree, and got this with the latest coreutils:

    $ cd /foo/bar/coreutils-8.23
    $ mkdir _build
    $ cd _build
    $ ../configure --disable-dependency-tracking
    checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
    checking whether build environment is sane... yes
    [...]
    $ make
    [...]
      GEN      lib/unistr.h
      GEN      lib/unitypes.h
      GEN      lib/uniwidth.h
      GEN      lib/wchar.h
      GEN      lib/wctype.h
      GEN      src/coreutils.h
    /bin/sh: src/coreutils.ht: No such file or directory
    gmake: *** [src/coreutils.h] Error 1

--Daniel

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