Re: gettext-0.14.2 fails on parallel build

[Greg Schafer]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:39:50PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Greg Schafer wrote:
> > gettext-0.14.2 seems to work well in general, but there is a problem on
> > parallel builds in the `gettext-tools/misc' dir. You should be able to
> > reproduce the problem by running this after configure:
> >
> >   make -C gettext-tools/misc -j 3
> 
> Thanks for the report. I cannot reproduce this on a single-processor machine
> with GNU make 3.79.1. Which is the 'make' version that you are using?

GNU Make 3.80

> I'm CCing the bug-automake mailing list because gettext-tools/misc/Makefile.am
> contains no relevant custom rules, i.e. the rules are all generated by
> automake 1.9.5.

The issue is still present in the latest gettext-0.14.3. It is 100%
reproducible for me on SMP. Here is the hack I'm using to work around the
problem:

  echo ".NOTPARALLEL:" >> gettext-tools/misc/Makefile.in

Sorry, but I don't know what the correct fix is.

Regards
Greg