On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 11:45:04PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:47:24AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > The mandocs target uses gzip to compress the resulting manpages. If this > > target runs more than once (using make -jX) at the same time, gzip may > > run more then once with the same set of files. It just bails out if it > > is not able to find a file because a concurrent run already removed it. > > > > Fix this by removing the gzip call and only work with uncompressed > > manpages. > > If it failded with gzip being run more than once before this > patch does not solve the bug - it simply makes it harder to trigger. No, the problem does not longer exists then. Or do you see a "*" to be expanded on runtime? > Anything that does not work with a make -j100 build is broken. > And please understand that we have people that uses "make -j100" when building > the kernel. I only use -j64 ... > These people most likely does not do "make mandocs" but we should still fix > the bug and not try to paper it over in this way. > > So try to analyse why we in the first place will run gzip in parallele and solve that. make mandocs -> make a.9 b.9 c.9 d.9 ... z.9 -> xmlto a.xml; gzip * -> xmlto b.xml; gzip * -> xmlto c.xml; gzip * -> xmlto d.xml; gzip * ... -> xmlto z.xml; gzip * Bastian -- Captain's Log, star date 21:34.5...
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