Reply to message «Re: Vim build sometimes fails for unknown reason», sent 21:12:37 17 July 2011, Sunday by Tony Mechelynck:
> Well, remove the -j5 switch. It looks like make tries to use the objdir > before it has been created, which points to a missing dependency on gobj > for _all_ compiles. It is not a solution. Most of time vim successfully builds, so it is faster to keep this switch and hope nothing fails rather then remove it. For this reason I also pointed out the problem here instead of digging into makefile trying to find out how to fix it. Original message: > On 12/07/11 05:33, ZyX wrote: > > Reply to message «Re: Vim build sometimes fails for unknown reason», > > sent 06:44:39 12 July 2011, Tuesday > > > > by Adrien "Axioplase" Piérard: > >> Is your compilation serial, or do you have some parallel compilations > >> going on somewhere? > >> That could be a race condition in the makefile, because of ill-defined > >> dependencies. > > > > Yes, I pass -j5 to make. I also think that this should be a race > > condition, but I do not know where. > > Well, remove the -j5 switch. It looks like make tries to use the objdir > before it has been created, which points to a missing dependency on gobj > for _all_ compiles. > > Or you could try adding the dependency, and, if you can make it work, > submit a patch (a context diff between your amended makefile and the > original) to whoever is the maintainer of the makefile you were using. > > > Best regards, > Tony.
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