3.1 Parallel build failure on sparc

Wed Mar 28 15:22:00 GMT 2001

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年03月26日 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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