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Re: 3.1 Parallel build failure on sparc


On Mar 28, 2001, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
Alexandre> This is a problem in libffi that has been known for a
Alexandre> few days.  src and src/sparc should have been created
Alexandre> by configure or make before attempting to create any
Alexandre> object files in them.

> Since you understand the problem

Not really.  I just happened to read someone explain the problem in
the java-discuss mailing list.  IIRC, the patch that introduced the
lossage was:

2001-03-26  Bryce McKinlay  <bryce@albatross.co.nz>

	* configure.in: Make target subdirectory in build dir.
	* Makefile.am: Override suffix based rules to specify correct output
	subdirectory.
	* Makefile.in: Rebuilt.
	* configure: Rebuilt.

> would you be willing to fix it?

I'll try to keep it in mind for my next chunk of spare time ;-D

But don't hold your breath.


Actually, I've just investigated it a little bit.  The patch seems
unnecessary to me.  It looks like someone used the wrong version of
automake to rebuild libffi/Makefile.in (AFAIK, it does indeed require
some specific version of automake to be rebuilt), and Bryce ended up
thinking there was something to fix.  But it was probably just a
matter of rebuilding Makefile.in with the right snapshot of automake.
Unfortunately, I don't know which snapshot that is.  Does anybody?

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