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parallel make yields "find: ‘./conf*.dir’: No such file or directory" errors

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: parallel make yields "find: ‘./conf*.dir’: No such file or directory" errors
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 01:05:17 +0200

When I want to build Automake (current Git version) with
a parallel make ("make -j12"):

  MAKEINFO doc/automake-history.info
  GEN      bin/automake
  GEN      bin/aclocal
  GEN      t/ax/shell-no-trail-bslash
  GEN      t/ax/cc-no-c-o
  GEN      doc/aclocal.1
  GEN      runtest
  GEN      doc/automake.1
  GEN      doc/amhello-1.0.tar.gz
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/vlefevre/software/automake'
  GEN      lib/Automake/Config.pm
  GEN      t/ax/test-defs.sh
find: ‘./conf272281.dir’: No such file or directory
find: ‘./conf272280.dir’: No such file or directory
find: ‘./conf272301.dir’: No such file or directory
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/vlefevre/software/automake'
Updating ./doc/version.texi
  MAKEINFO doc/automake.info
  GEN      bin/aclocal-1.16
  GEN      doc/aclocal-1.16.1
  GEN      bin/automake-1.16
  GEN      doc/automake-1.16.1
+++++++++++make: INTERNAL: Exiting with 1 jobserver tokens available; should be 12!

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Message #8 received at 66352 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: vincent <at> vinc17.net
Cc: 66352 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66352: parallel make yields "find:
 ‘./conf*.dir’: No such file or directory" errors
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2023 10:28:38 -0600

    When I want to build Automake (current Git version) with
    a parallel make ("make -j12"):

I surmise this one was caused by the same random timing failures as your
other reports, 66353 and 66354.

A couple days ago we finally installed a patch (thanks Bogdan and Jacob)
so that development automake should no longer require development
autoconf in order to avoid these problems. I.e., dev automake now falls
back to the previous one-second-timestamp behavior unless autom4te is
known to be new enough (specifically, that it uses Time::HiRes).

Please confirm if possible ... --thanks, karl.

Message #11 received at 66352 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Cc: 66352 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66352: parallel make yields "find: ���./conf*.dir���: No such file or directory" errors
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2023 00:55:09 +0100

On 2023-11-03 10:28:38 -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>     When I want to build Automake (current Git version) with
>     a parallel make ("make -j12"):
> 
> I surmise this one was caused by the same random timing failures as your
> other reports, 66353 and 66354.
> 
> A couple days ago we finally installed a patch (thanks Bogdan and Jacob)
> so that development automake should no longer require development
> autoconf in order to avoid these problems. I.e., dev automake now falls
> back to the previous one-second-timestamp behavior unless autom4te is
> known to be new enough (specifically, that it uses Time::HiRes).
> 
> Please confirm if possible ... --thanks, karl.

Thanks. I've tried, and after the update to
5c85c782ae63769cc8c0b56505f7b188009d6666, the
failures have disappeared.

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Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Message #14 received at 66352 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: 66352-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 66352 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66352: parallel make yie
 lds "find: ���./conf*.dir���
 : No such file or directory" errors
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 16:52:34 -0700

Thanks Vincent. Closing.

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