Bug 9730 – mozilla 1.0.1-r2 build fails on SMP machine: Can't create dir... file exists

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dave Andruczyk 2002-10-26 19:38:02 UTC]

Long standing issue, on my box, had it since installed Gentoo 1.2  Hadto turn my
MAKEOPTS to "" so it wouldn't try a parallel build which breaks every time with
mozilla.  With the following fault my system was set to MAKEOPTS=" -j3" (Dual
proc Athlon MP 1.2 Ghz)

Excerpt follows from build:
make[1]: Entering directory
`/scratch/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.0.1-r2/work/mozilla/security/coreconf/nsinstall'
gcc -o Linux2.4_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/nsinstall.o -c -O2 -fPIC -DLINUX1_2 -Di386
-D_XOPEN_SOURCE -DLINUX2_1 -ansi  -pipe -DLINUX -Dlinux -D_POSIX_SOURCE
-D_BSD_SOURCE -DHAVE_STRERROR -DXP_UNIX -UDEBUG -DNDEBUG -D_REENTRANT
-I../../../dist/Linux2.4_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/include 
-I../../../dist/public/coreconf -I../../../dist/private/coreconf
-I../../../dist/Linux2.4_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/include/nspr
-I../../../dist/Linux2.4_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/include/dbm  nsinstall.c
mkdir: cannot create directory `Linux2.4_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ': File exists
make[1]: *** [Linux2.4_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/pathsub.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/scratch/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.0.1-r2/work/mozilla/security/coreconf/nsinstall'
Sat Oct 26 20:30:17 EDT 2002
../coreconf/nsinstall/Linux2.4_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/nsinstall -L ../../dist
include ../../dist/Linux2.4_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ
make: ../coreconf/nsinstall/Linux2.4_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/nsinstall: Command
not found
make: *** [moz_import] Error 127

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 165, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

As before if I switch my makeopts to NOT use -jx mozilla should build as did
previous releases when "-jx" was removed from MAKEOPTS(still waiting for it to
compile..)

[Comment 1 Simon Marlow 2002-10-29 10:17:50 UTC]

It doesn't need an SMP machine to fail: just having -j2 in MAKEOPTS causes the 
reported build failure.  It just failed in 2 out of 2 attempts for me.

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-10-29 14:34:42 UTC]

-j2 works ?

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-10-29 14:47:57 UTC]

Comment #2 was for Dave Andruczyk.

As for Comment #1, -j2 works for me all the time (Pentium 4  2.4Ghz) .. do you
have SMP ?

[Comment 4 Dave Andruczyk 2002-10-29 16:27:01 UTC]

Yes I have an SMP box,  Dual Athlon 1.2Ghz (MP Processors)

-j2 or higher causes the build failure on my (SMP) machine.

[Comment 5 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-12-08 15:09:14 UTC]

This seems to be a problem with the NSS stuff.  Try mozilla-1.2.1 or later,
as it should be fixed there.  Please let me know ...

[Comment 6 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-12-25 20:57:15 UTC]

Should be fixed; no traffic.