Error below happends when emerging bash-3.0-r9, retried with MAKEOPTS="j2" and it went fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: rm -f libhistory.a ar cr libhistory.a history.o histexpand.o histfile.o histsearch.o shell.o savestring.o mbutil.o xmalloc.o ar: mbutil.o: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [libhistory.a] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/bash-3.0-r9/work/bash-3.0/lib/readline' make: *** [lib/readline/libhistory.a] Error 1 rm -f history.o make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 29 2005, 14:02:06)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 acpi alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr emboss encode fam foomaticdb fortran freetds gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imlib javascript jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmap mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mssql ncurses nls nptl odbc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl pic png python quicktime readline samba sdl spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xprint xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
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This is strange....just ran into this problem with trying to upgrade to bash-3.0-r11 from bash-3.0-r10 (no longer in the tree). Oddly enough I was able to downgrade to bash-3.0-r9 but still couldn't upgrade to bash-3.0-r11 until I changed the "-j3". IOW emerging bash-3.0-r9 worked with "-j3" (not only now but in the past) but bash-3.0-r11 didn't.
Same thing with bash-3.0-r11 and MAKEOPTS='-j2', but with histsearch.o.
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The summary is misleading - not limited to bash-3.0-r9 and not limited to MAKEOPTS="-j3"
Created attachment 60851 [details, diff] hack to remove -j
This one truly is odd. I just emerged bash-3.0-r11 on two slow machines, 586 and Alpha EV5, both with only remote DISTCC_HOSTS. The 586 with MAKEOPTS="-j4" emerged with no problem. The Alpha with MAKEOPTS="-j3" failed with the mbutil.o thing. The Alpha with MAKEOPTS="-j1" emerged with no problem.
for me it was dying with that error on "libhistory.a". I commented out the MAKEOPTS="-j3" in my /etc/make.conf and then it build just fine after that. My emerge info is below (with the j3 flag back on: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11.10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11.10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 1600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 27 2005, 11:10:15)] ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-mp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-mp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/opt/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aim alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr clamav crypt cups curl divx4linux emboss encode faad fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib innodb jpeg libwww mad maildir mmx mp3 mpeg mysql mysqli ncurses nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre perl php pic png qt quicktime readline real samba sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcpd tidy truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xosd xv xvid xvmc zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
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I ran into this over the weekend. Version 3.0-r11 failed to compile the first time, but compiled fine the second (savestring.c did not get compiled "in time" the first time, thus savestring.o did not exist) with no changes. I asked a friend (a guru) about this, and he said that many programs (obviously including bash) simply don't have the required safeguards to allow parallel jobs. Obviously, the ebuild needs to remove the -jn makeopt (where n represents any interger larger than one).
Comment 11 describes what is already stated e.g. in /usr/portage/skel.ebuild. "emake" does parallel build; in cases where this does not work, a simple "emake -j1" should be used instead. The hack from comment 7 seems to be overkill for this, since with multiple -j options, the last one overrides all previous. So probably a simple "emake -j1" should be used in the ebuild for now, and the problem be reported upstream with the bash developers?
Comment on attachment 60851 [details, diff] hack to remove -j ebuild patch incorrect and unnecessary. We'll use -j1 if the Makefiles can't be repaired correctly.
When this fails for people, I'd like to see 3 things: (1) emerge --info (2) attachment containing *complete* log of failing emerge (3) attachment that is the Makefile in the directory where the merge failed. For example, most of these seem to be failing in the lib/readline directory. In those cases, I want the attachment to be /var/tmp/portage/bash-3.0-r11/work/bash-3.0/lib/readline/Makefile I've done a lot of testing on various architectures and been unable to reproduce this so far. I think it's something environmental (such as, perhaps, incorrect Makefile generated by rogue autotools or something like that)
Nevermind, I see the problem. libhistory.a and libreadline.a use some objects in common. When built in parallel, they end up trampling each other. http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/app-shells/bash/files/bash-3.0-parallel.patch?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/app-shells/bash/bash-3.0-r11.ebuild?r1=1.7&r2=1.8
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