DVI output fails on SMP build

[Bruno Postle]

Basically the default 'make' target builds the binaries, man pages, PS, DVI and HTML docs, but the DVI step fails randomly half the time when using the make -j2 option to build in parallel (and 3/4 of the time with -j4).

The result is that a local build is fine, but enblend built in the fedora build system is not. I can force fedora to build with a single thread, but this slows things down, and this problem will catch out other packagers in the future.

A workaround would be to just build the binaries and man pages in the default target and let people build the DVI/PDF/HTML docs separately as needed.

[rew (r-e-wolff)]

Would it be possible to move the DVI target to "DVI_internal" and include "make -j 1 DVI_internal" as the rule for DVI in the makefile? (I think the command line overrides what the "master" make got as arguments, right?)

[Christoph Spiel (cspiel)]

Fixed in ef895497dff3.

[Bruno Postle (brunopostle)]

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Can confirm this is (probably) fixed with default branch,
`make all pdf -j2` just completed ok four times in a row.

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[Christoph Spiel (cspiel)]

Fixed in 4.2.