While updating my system, I stumbled over this issue: When building emacs-23.4-r3 in parallel, a few of the lisp/<foo>.el files are not compiled to <foo>.elc before the .elc is required/used by another part of the build. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: [Happened in 3 out of 4 parallel build attempts.] 1. Have a parallel build configuration (see my emerge --info below) 2. emerge -bavt app-editors/emacs Actual Results: The build fails. At first I observed this problem on mwheel.el -> mwheel.elc, now when I reproduced it after verifying that emacs-23.4-r3 does, in fact, build fine with MAKEOPTS="-j1", I get the same problem on tooltip.el -> tooltip.elc. The missing .elc causes two seperate errors in the build log: 1. ../lib-src/make-docfile <list of .elc> ../lisp/<foo>.elc: No such file or directory 2. `/bin/pwd`/temacs -batch -l loadup dump ... Loading <foo>.el (source)... Attempt to autoload define-minor-mode while preparing to dump make[1]: *** [emacs] Error 255 I'll attach the full log of one failing build. Expected Results: The package should build correctly using parallel make. Portage 2.1.10.65 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.3.8-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.3.8-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_970_@_3.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:45:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 3.1.7 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.7 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.7-r5 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.6 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.4-r1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.14.1-r3 Repositories: gentoo LOCAL jmbreuer ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* 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Created attachment 318090 [details] build.log
I'm a bit reluctant to add the usual emake -j1 workaround to the ebuild, because a) this affects only a previous slot and b) there were never any problems reported with less aggressive parallelisation flags (-j16 is known to work). However, I would gladly accept a patch that fixes the issue in Emacs' build system.
Is this still an issue with Emacs 24.3?
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #3) > Is this still an issue with Emacs 24.3? No answer. Closing.
Sorry for the delay - your question in May has slipped past me. I've just rebuilt app-editors/emacs-24.3-r2 five times on the originally affected machine (otherwise idle, cache hot). I can no longer reproduce the issue. So let's assume it is gone; and if it still isn't by any chance this should be plenty of documentation that MAKEOPTS="-j1" is a viable workaround. ;-)
