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Failure in parallel make?

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From: "Philip Rowlands" <phr+coreutils <at> dimebar.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Failure in parallel make?
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:49:28 +0000

Using coreutils 9.6 on a vanilla Fedora 40 system, with no ./configure customizations,

This works:
$ make src/sort
...
$ src/sort --version
sort (GNU coreutils) 9.6

This fails:
$ ./configure && make -j2 src/sort
...
  GEN      src/version.c
  CC       lib/libcoreutils_a-hard-locale.o
  CC       lib/libcoreutils_a-hash.o
lib/hard-locale.c: In function 'hard_locale':
lib/hard-locale.c:30:15: error: 'SETLOCALE_NULL_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'SETLOCALE_NULL_ALL_MTSAFE'?
   30 |   char locale[SETLOCALE_NULL_MAX];
      |               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |               SETLOCALE_NULL_ALL_MTSAFE
lib/hard-locale.c:30:15: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
lib/hard-locale.c:32:7: error: implicit declaration of function 'setlocale_null_r' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
   32 |   if (setlocale_null_r (category, locale, sizeof (locale)))
      |       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make: *** [Makefile:15454: lib/libcoreutils_a-hard-locale.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....


Let's try again:
$ make -j2 src/sort
  CC       src/sort.o
  CC       src/version.o
src/version.c:2:10: fatal error: version.h: No such file or directory
    2 | #include "version.h"
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Makefile:12848: src/version.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
In file included from src/sort.c:32:
src/system.h:41:10: fatal error: configmake.h: No such file or directory
   41 | #include "configmake.h"
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Makefile:12848: src/sort.o] Error 1

$ make --version
GNU Make 4.4.1
Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu


Is there a dependency problem in the generated Makefile? FWIW I see similar errors trying to build src/cp and src/mv.

src/sort$(EXEEXT): $(src_sort_OBJECTS) $(src_sort_DEPENDENCIES) $(EXTRA_src_sort_DEPENDENCIES) src/$(am__dirstamp)
        @rm -f src/sort$(EXEEXT)
        $(AM_V_CCLD)$(LINK) $(src_sort_OBJECTS) $(src_sort_LDADD) $(LIBS)
src/split.$(OBJEXT): src/$(am__dirstamp) src/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
src/temp-stream.$(OBJEXT): src/$(am__dirstamp) \
        src/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)


Cheers,
Phil

Message #8 received at 76409 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>
To: "Philip Rowlands" <phr+coreutils <at> dimebar.com>
Cc: 76409 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#76409: Failure in parallel make?
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:29:31 -0800

"Philip Rowlands" <phr+coreutils <at> dimebar.com> writes:

> Is there a dependency problem in the generated Makefile? FWIW I see similar errors trying to build src/cp and src/mv.
>
> src/sort$(EXEEXT): $(src_sort_OBJECTS) $(src_sort_DEPENDENCIES) $(EXTRA_src_sort_DEPENDENCIES) src/$(am__dirstamp)
>         @rm -f src/sort$(EXEEXT)
>         $(AM_V_CCLD)$(LINK) $(src_sort_OBJECTS) $(src_sort_LDADD) $(LIBS)
> src/split.$(OBJEXT): src/$(am__dirstamp) src/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
> src/temp-stream.$(OBJEXT): src/$(am__dirstamp) \
>         src/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)

Neither 'make -j2 src/sort' or 'make src/sort' work for me.

Running an individual target wont work since the dependencies in
src/.deps/sort.Po, for example, aren't generated.

To demonstrate:

    $ git clean -xdf
    $ ./bootstrap
    $ ./configure
    $ make src/sort
      CC       src/sort.o
    In file included from src/sort.c:32:
    src/system.h:41:10: fatal error: configmake.h: No such file or directory
       41 | #include "configmake.h"
          |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    compilation terminated.
    make: *** [Makefile:12898: src/sort.o] Error 1
    $ cat src/.deps/sort.Po
    # dummy
    $ make
    $ make clean
    $ head -n 5 src/.deps/sort.Po
    src/sort.o: src/sort.c /usr/include/stdc-predef.h lib/config.h \
     /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/14/include/stdbool.h \
     /usr/include/assert.h /usr/include/features.h \
     /usr/include/features-time64.h /usr/include/bits/wordsize.h \
     /usr/include/bits/timesize.h /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h \
    $ make src/sort
    $ ./src/sort --version
    sort (GNU coreutils) 9.6.22-7eada

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Message #11 received at 76409 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>,
 Philip Rowlands <phr+coreutils <at> dimebar.com>
Cc: 76409 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#76409: Failure in parallel make?
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:24:42 +0000

On 19/02/2025 00:29, Collin Funk wrote:
> "Philip Rowlands" <phr+coreutils <at> dimebar.com> writes:
> 
>> Is there a dependency problem in the generated Makefile? FWIW I see similar errors trying to build src/cp and src/mv.
>>
>> src/sort$(EXEEXT): $(src_sort_OBJECTS) $(src_sort_DEPENDENCIES) $(EXTRA_src_sort_DEPENDENCIES) src/$(am__dirstamp)
>>          @rm -f src/sort$(EXEEXT)
>>          $(AM_V_CCLD)$(LINK) $(src_sort_OBJECTS) $(src_sort_LDADD) $(LIBS)
>> src/split.$(OBJEXT): src/$(am__dirstamp) src/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
>> src/temp-stream.$(OBJEXT): src/$(am__dirstamp) \
>>          src/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
> 
> Neither 'make -j2 src/sort' or 'make src/sort' work for me.
> 
> Running an individual target wont work since the dependencies in
> src/.deps/sort.Po, for example, aren't generated.

Right. That's an automake limitation discussed at:
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Sources.html
I.e. BUILT_SOURCES aren't dependencies of arbitrary targets,
only top level ones like 'all', 'check' etc.

cheers,
Pádraig

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