URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67754>
Summary: [gxditview] missing explicit creation of
"src/devices/xditview/GXditview-ad.h"'s parent directory
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Tue 02 Dec 2025 02:32:59 AM UTC
Category: Driver - others/general
Severity: 2 - Minor
Item Group: Build/Installation
Status: In Progress
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: gbranden
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Tue 02 Dec 2025 02:32:59 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Originally reported as
[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1121570 Debian #1121570].
It's easiest to describe this by quoting my pending ChangeLog entry.
* src/devices/xditview/xditview.am
(src/devices/xditview/GXditview-ad.h): Add `$(MKDIR_P)` to
target rule to ensure the parent directory exists. This problem
is hard to observe because it shows up only when our `configure`
script is run with the `--disable-dependency-tracking` option
and, apparently, stochastically with highly parallelized builds.
{A "stock" build never encounters it because with
"dependency tracking", Automake generates make(1) files that
create ".deps" files in the build tree, and a prerequisite to
doing so is to create the parents of the directories housing
them, a convenience that this target rule snuck through.}
Selecting "Minor" severity because eliciting this defect requires a bit of a
venture off of the "configure && make" beaten path.
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