GNU bug report logs - #62762
'make' often errors with "Org version mismatch" after pulling a new version of the code

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From: Max Nikulin <manikulin <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: yantar92 <at> posteo.net, 62762 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bzg <at> gnu.org, dmitry <at> gutov.dev, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, acm <at> muc.de
Subject: bug#62762: Incremental builds and Lisp files dependencies pulling a new version of the code
Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 22:50:22 +0700

On 06/05/2023 14:51, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This doesn't really work, not as long as we use Make: some *.elc files
> might not exist yet, for whatever reasons, so Make will try to
> generate them first, thus disrupting the order of generation that you
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> will try to encode in the dependencies.  We already tried that, and it
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> didn't work, not even just for Org.

Could you, please, be more precise? Do you suspect that Make may start 
building a target before completion of all rules for its prerequisites? 
It sounds like a grave bug in Make.

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