When emerging app-shells/bash-completion-2.1-r91 as part of @world, everything compiled fine & then started to install but it failed saying: Makefile:955: recipe for target 'symlinks' failed I re-ran emerge -DuvN @world to ensure it was reproducible but this time it said: Makefile:848: recipe for target 'install-am' failed Being as it was a different error, I ran it a third time and it installed... I know non-reproducible errors are tricky to track down, & it seems odd to report something that has now installed, but I've never seen a package fail in two different ways then install on the third attempt... Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. attempt to emerge app-shells/bash-completion-2.1-r91 2. 3. Actual Results: first attempt, install failed: "Makefile:955: recipe for target 'symlinks' failed" second attempt, install failed: "Makefile:848: recipe for target 'install-am' failed" third attempt, install succeeded. Expected Results: Should have installed first time. Portage 2.2.14 (python 3.4.2-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.6.4, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.12.21-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.12.21-gentoo-r1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3000+-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 991360 total, 104860 free KiB Swap: 2072312 total, 1995188 free Timestamp of tree: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 23:15:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p30 dev-lang/perl: 5.18.2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.8, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.13.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.4, 4.8.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2-r1 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.17 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19-r1 Repositories: gentoo location: /mnt/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: 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"failed to install twice then installed fine the third time despite nothing changing..." You should be attaching three build logs in that case.
Created attachment 387546 [details] build-failure.log (In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1) > "failed to install twice then installed fine the third time despite nothing > changing..." > > You should be attaching three build logs in that case. The build logs in /var/tmp/portage for this package are no longer there... I don't know why, as I didn't delete them & the other packages that were installed yesterday before it are there... I decided to re-emerge it to see what happened and it again failed to compile, so I can attach a build log... this has both the above error messages in it, so maybe I failed to notice the "symlinks" error when it failed to install the 2nd time... I re-emerged it a second time and the same thing happened (the build log was identical). Third time, it again installed successfully but afterwards the entire /var/tmp/portage/app-shells/bash-completion-2.1-r91/ directory had been deleted, so I am unable to attach a build log for the successful installation.
Oh, a classical parallel make issue. I'm pretty sure I've reported it upstream, must've forgotten to fix the ebuild as well. I see patrick already worked around it, but I replaced it by a better workaround anyway. + 27 Oct 2014; Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> bash-completion-2.1-r91.ebuild: + Work-around race conditions in the Makefile, bug #526996.
