Two concurrent calls to cmd_db2man may attempt to compress manual pages generated by each other. gzip can then fail due to an input file having already been compressed and removed. Move the gzip command to the top-level mandocs target. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bastian Blank <waldi@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index bc3d9f8..b07b5f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ htmldocs: $(HTML) MAN := $(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(BOOKS)) mandocs: $(MAN) + $(if $(wildcard $(obj)/man/*.9),gzip -f $(obj)/man/*.9) installmandocs: mandocs mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man9/ @@ -159,7 +160,7 @@ quiet_cmd_db2html = HTML $@ cp $(PNG-$(basename $(notdir $@))) $(patsubst %.html,%,$@); fi quiet_cmd_db2man = MAN $@ - cmd_db2man = if grep -q refentry $<; then xmlto man $(XMLTOFLAGS) -o $(obj)/man $< ; gzip -f $(obj)/man/*.9; fi + cmd_db2man = if grep -q refentry $<; then xmlto man $(XMLTOFLAGS) -o $(obj)/man $< ; fi %.9 : %.xml @(which xmlto > /dev/null 2>&1) || \ (echo "*** You need to install xmlto ***"; \ -- Ben Hutchings Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html