make fails if several jobs are used

[Adrián Chaves]

This is the output that I get when I run ‘make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install’ with my environment configured for make to use several jobs:

make[1]: Entering directory '/chakra/desktop/ember/src/ember-0.7.2'
make[2]: Entering directory '/chakra/desktop/ember/src/ember-0.7.2'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/chakra/desktop/ember/pkg/ember/usr/bin'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/chakra/desktop/ember/pkg/ember/usr/bin'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/chakra/desktop/ember/pkg/ember/usr/etc/ember'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/chakra/desktop/ember/pkg/ember/usr/share/applications'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/chakra/desktop/ember/pkg/ember/usr/share/icons/worldforge'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/chakra/desktop/ember/pkg/ember/usr/share/doc/ember-0.7.2'
 /usr/bin/install -c ember '/chakra/desktop/ember/pkg/ember/usr/bin'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ember.conf '/chakra/desktop/ember/pkg/ember/usr/etc/ember'
 /usr/bin/install -c ember '/chakra/desktop/ember/pkg/ember/usr/bin'
/usr/bin/install: cannot change permissions of '/chakra/desktop/ember/pkg/ember/usr/bin/ember': No such file or directory
Makefile:526: recipe for target 'install-dist_binSCRIPTS' failed
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 media/ember.png '/chakra/desktop/ember/pkg/ember/usr/share/icons/worldforge'
make[2]: *** [install-dist_binSCRIPTS] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ember.desktop '/chakra/desktop/ember/pkg/ember/usr/share/applications'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 README.md COPYING AUTHORS NEWS '/chakra/desktop/ember/pkg/ember/usr/share/doc/ember-0.7.2'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/chakra/desktop/ember/src/ember-0.7.2'
Makefile:964: recipe for target 'install-am' failed
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/chakra/desktop/ember/src/ember-0.7.2'
Makefile:661: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Things work if I use ‘-j1’ (‘make -j1 DESTDIR=$pkgdir install’ to override my environment setting.

[Erik Ogenvik (erik-ogenvik)]

Thanks for the report. I've seen this myself, randomly. Re-running it often makes it work, which is why I haven't looked into it more.
I'm thinking that we need to better tell Automake how things depend on each other.