Re: MAKE_JOBS_SAFE with gmake
On Mar 24, 2009, at 20:43, Doug Barton wrote: I'm testing my ports for MAKE_JOBS_SAFE-ness, and came across this message when building xscreensaver (which uses gmake): gmake[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule. I have zero gmake fu, can anyone help me make sense of that? The good news is that the build finished successfully ... I have noticed that this happens if somewhere in the Buildsystem a sub-make is called with make/gmake instead of $(MAKE) ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: MAKE_JOBS_SAFE with gmake
Tilman Linneweh wrote: On Mar 24, 2009, at 20:43, Doug Barton wrote: I'm testing my ports for MAKE_JOBS_SAFE-ness, and came across this message when building xscreensaver (which uses gmake): gmake[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule. I have zero gmake fu, can anyone help me make sense of that? The good news is that the build finished successfully ... I have noticed that this happens if somewhere in the Buildsystem a sub-make is called with make/gmake instead of $(MAKE) Thanks for the suggestion. I don't see that anywhere in the Makefiles (except for some testing/maintenance target that we don't use). Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
MAKE_JOBS_SAFE with gmake
Question, I'm testing my ports for MAKE_JOBS_SAFE-ness, and came across this message when building xscreensaver (which uses gmake): gmake[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule. I have zero gmake fu, can anyone help me make sense of that? The good news is that the build finished successfully ... Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: MAKE_JOBS_SAFE with gmake
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 12:43 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: Question, I'm testing my ports for MAKE_JOBS_SAFE-ness, and came across this message when building xscreensaver (which uses gmake): gmake[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule. I have zero gmake fu, can anyone help me make sense of that? The good news is that the build finished successfully ... Doug I'll give it a stab, as I've dealt with this when trying to write a one makefile to rule them all build system recently (in other words, I maintain a collection of 200+ packages and my makefile attempts to call $(MAKE) within those subdirectories). The GNU make process for some reason was not able to determine the type of your make that was used for building a target of the following flavor: mytarget: deps dep2 ... $(MAKE) -C $(mytargetdir) mytarget Supposedly, GNU make is supposed to recognize that $(MAKE) above is a make program and not a normal program (such as install, BSD make, sed, etc). In the event that it is calling a compatible GNU make program, it can (through some means I don't fully understand) provide access to its job pool to the child (the make process that will be executed in the target above). This allows, for instance, you to pass -j 4 to the parent make process, and it will guarantee that no more than four jobs get run, even if there are subdirs-within-subdirs, etc Something is preventing this detection from succeeding in your case. I see this a lot as well (in my own make system), but I've chosen to ignore it in my environment. I think, in my case, that I am using $(MAKE) within an $(eval ...) block and the $(MAKE) gets expanded before the $(eval ...) does, making the GNU make program actually see something like this, before it actually builds the target list: mytarget: deps dep2 ... /usr/local/bin/gmake -C $(mytargetdir) mytarget Which may confuse it. Here's a link to the ambiguous description on the GNU make website: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/make/Error-Messages.html -- Coleman Kane signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: MAKE_JOBS_SAFE with gmake
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 16:02 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 12:43 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: Question, I'm testing my ports for MAKE_JOBS_SAFE-ness, and came across this message when building xscreensaver (which uses gmake): gmake[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule. I have zero gmake fu, can anyone help me make sense of that? The good news is that the build finished successfully ... Doug I'll give it a stab, as I've dealt with this when trying to write a one makefile to rule them all build system recently (in other words, I maintain a collection of 200+ packages and my makefile attempts to call $(MAKE) within those subdirectories). The GNU make process for some reason was not able to determine the type of your make that was used for building a target of the following flavor: mytarget: deps dep2 ... $(MAKE) -C $(mytargetdir) mytarget Supposedly, GNU make is supposed to recognize that $(MAKE) above is a make program and not a normal program (such as install, BSD make, sed, etc). In the event that it is calling a compatible GNU make program, it can (through some means I don't fully understand) provide access to its job pool to the child (the make process that will be executed in the target above). This allows, for instance, you to pass -j 4 to the parent make process, and it will guarantee that no more than four jobs get run, even if there are subdirs-within-subdirs, etc Something is preventing this detection from succeeding in your case. I see this a lot as well (in my own make system), but I've chosen to ignore it in my environment. I think, in my case, that I am using $(MAKE) within an $(eval ...) block and the $(MAKE) gets expanded before the $(eval ...) does, making the GNU make program actually see something like this, before it actually builds the target list: mytarget: deps dep2 ... /usr/local/bin/gmake -C $(mytargetdir) mytarget Which may confuse it. Here's a link to the ambiguous description on the GNU make website: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/make/Error-Messages.html Additionally: http://lists.samba.org/archive/distcc/2004q1/002160.html -- Coleman Kane signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
