Re: Eliminating more recursive make invocations

[John W. Eaton]

On 07/07/2015 04:37 PM, Michael Godfrey wrote:
> On 07/07/2015 05:34 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > I checked in a series of changes that eliminates calling make
> > recursively for the doc, etc/icons, and test directory trees.
> >
> > You may need to clean up your build tree and run the bootstrap script
> > followed by configure to eliminate now obsolete Makefiles.
> >
> > In doing this I once again enabled building the documentation and
> > images for the documentation in parallel.  It seems to work for me,
> > but if you notice problems, please report them.
> >
> > I'm considering doing the same for the liboctave, libinterp, libgui,
> > src, and scripts directory.  At that point, the only directory that
> > will be handled by a recursive make invocation will be libgnu.
> >
> > jwe
> This all went smoothly for me until:
>
>   GEN      doc/interpreter/octave.html/mesh.png
>    GEN      doc/interpreter/plot3.png
>    GEN      doc/interpreter/octave.html/plot3.png
>    GEN      doc/interpreter/extended.png
>    GEN      doc/interpreter/octave.html/extended.png
>    TEX      doc/refcard/refcard-a4.dvi
> ^C^C^C^C^CMakefile:4332: recipe for target 'doc/refcard/refcard-a4.dvi'
> failed
>
> Does a full build work for you? It appears to me that something is out
> of order
> in the build in doc/interpreter/

A clean build does seem to work for me.

Are you doing a parallel build?  How many jobs?

Can you use

  make V=1 ...

to see the details of this failure and post the info here?

Thanks,

jwe