Re: Intermittent parallel make build failure of diffutils 2.8.4

[Paul Eggert]

Andrew Walrond <address@hidden> writes:

> This happens only very occasionally, and says something about LOCALEDIR being 
> undefined in main.c

That's weird, since diffutils 2.8.4 has no main.c.  Perhaps you meant diff.c?

> Hope this is enough to give you a clue; I'll retain a log 
> next time it happens, but it is very rare.

Yes, I'd like to see that.

src/Makefile.am has the following dependencies, which should be enough
to tame even a parallel make:

cmp.$(OBJEXT) diff3.$(OBJECT) diff.$(OBJECT) sdiff.$(OBJECT): paths.h
paths.h:
        (echo '#define DEFAULT_DIFF_PROGRAM "$(bindir)/'`echo diff|sed 
'$(transform)'`'"' && \
         echo '#define LOCALEDIR "$(localedir)"') >$@