Re: Bootstrap failure using 'make -j4' [Cygwin]

[Jan Djärv]

Eli Zaretskii skrev 2010-05-22 08.57:

> Thanks.  I think your problem begins with this error message I see in
> the log:
>
>     mkdir: impossibile creare la directory "deps": File exists
>
> This comes from the following fragment in src/Makefile.in:
>
>      .c.o:
>             @$(MKDEPDIR)
>             $(CC) -c $(CPPFLAGS) $(ALL_CFLAGS) $<
>
> where MKDEPDIR expands to this:
>
>      test -d ${DEPDIR} || mkdir ${DEPDIR}
>
> Now, if more than one .c.o rule tries to create the `deps'
> subdirectory at the same time, one of them might lose due to a race
> condition, and fail the entire compilation.
>
> Could you please try changing this line:
>
>             @$(MKDEPDIR)
> into
>             address@hidden(MKDEPDIR)
>
> and see if that makes the problem go away?

A better solution is probably to replace

      test -d ${DEPDIR} || mkdir ${DEPDIR}

with

      mkdir -p ${DEPDIR}

        Jan D.