Bug 650230

Summary:	sys-devel/automake-1.16-r1 fails with -j>1: help2man: can't get `--help' info from aclocal-1.16
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	bkohler, lperkins
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	build log. emerge --info build.log using -j31

Description Alex Xu (Hello71) 2018-03-11 17:54:15 UTC

running make again or using -j1 fixes problem.

Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-03-11 22:23:56 UTC

Please attach build.log and `emerge --info` output.

Comment 2 lperkins 2019-03-12 20:11:22 UTC

Created attachment 568902 [details]
build log.

Comment 3 lperkins 2019-03-12 20:12:45 UTC

Created attachment 568914 [details]
emerge --info

Comment 4 lperkins 2019-03-12 20:14:56 UTC

Just ran into this on my system.  As far as I can tell it's a race condition in the automake build process.  I'm not sure exactly where though.

Comment 5 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-03-12 21:19:30 UTC

After discussion on IRC I am going to drop "CONFIRMED" status. We still don't have a reproducer. Ben noticed that 

> ln bin/aclocal bin/aclocal-1.16

and 

> ln bin/automake bin/automake-1.16

are missing in attached build.log which looks like 

> install-exec-hook:
>     @$(POST_INSTALL)
>     @for p in $(bin_SCRIPTS); do \
>       f=`echo $$p | sed -e 's,.*/,,' -e '$(transform)'`; \
>       fv="$$f-$(APIVERSION)"; \
>       rm -f "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$fv"; \
>       echo " $(LN) '$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$f' '$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$fv'"; \
>       $(LN) "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$f" "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$fv"; \
>     done

from $src/bin/local.mk didn't run for some reason...

Comment 6 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-03-12 21:22:22 UTC

Created attachment 568918 [details]
build.log using -j31

Comment 7 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2019-03-13 02:09:57 UTC

maybe it would be worth adding a check if make fails and if so, print a warning to retry the build with instructions to post build log to this bug?

Comment 8 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2019-03-13 02:10:42 UTC

pressed submit too early.

I think it's probably not worth forcing -j1 for the apparent majority of users that have no problem, even if the difference is only a few seconds.

Comment 9 Lionel Bouton 2019-05-04 08:26:09 UTC

I can confirm the failure and the fix (MAKEOPTS=-j1) on one of my system.