Re: [Bug-xorriso] parallelized failure in xorriso 1.4.2

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

ilove zfs wrote:
> (See https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/1941)

Is there any information hidden which i should know ?
I don't see any log of a failed install run. There are "comments"
but the link does not work for me.


> This seems to be a regression in 1.4.2, as I cannot reproduce the issue with
> 1.4.0. [...]
> However, I'm not sure precisely what changed between 1.4.0 and 1.4.2 to
> trigger the bug.

Probably due to a change of autotools on my development machine.
1.4.0 was made by an old SuSE Linux. 1.4.2 by Debian 8.


> (iMac running OS X 10.11.5, if relevant)

During the release process i tested 1.4.2 on Debian 6, FreeBSD, Solaris,
and NetBSD. No problems were to see with "make install".

My knowledge about autotools is strictly heuristic, i fear.


> I have found the following workarounds to be successful:

Obviously your knowledge is better than mine. :)

> (a) de-parallelizing just `make install`

How did you do that ?

> (b) running autoreconf -fiv

I dimly remember that several Linux distros replace my autotools stuff
by their own local version.
So the problem might get hidden there.

> c) replacing the install-sh in the tarball with my local
> share/automake-1.15/install-sh (this is the reason (b) works)

My local version is
  automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1

> (d) setting MKDIR_P="mkdir -p" instead of the default,

Here your knowledge exceeds mine by far.


I will try to learn more about "make install" and parallelization.
Nevertheless, if you can give me a quick tour for dummies or develop
tangible proposals what to change here, this might help a lot.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas