Re: libtool 1.4 leaves .o.lock file lying around

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Friday 29 June 2001  7:37 pm, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On IRIX 6.5, libtool 1.4 leaves a .o.lock file on the disk. I have to
> remove it later during "make clean".
>
> To reproduce,
> - take libiconv-1.7 from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/
> - configure and compile:
>    $ CC="cc -O" ./configure
>    $ make
>    $ ls -li libtool libcharset/libtool libcharset/lib/localcharset.o.lock
> 272318 -rwxr-xr-x    2 haible   talk      146616 Jun 29 20:18
> libcharset/lib/localcharset.o.lock 272318 -rwxr-xr-x    2 haible   talk    
>  146616 Jun 29 20:18 libcharset/libtool 99512 -rwxr-xr-x    1 haible   talk
>      146628 Jun 29 20:17 libtool
>
> I think libtool ought to remove its lock files once the compilation is
> done, because it's only a means to make parallel builds work.

Definitely.  It is probably quite straight forward to figure out where in 
ltmain.in the `rm' command should go.  I can't reproduce it easily on my 
linux box, since it ddoesn't require locking =(O| If you can track it down 
while I work my way through my backlog, a patch would be gratefully received.

> Bruno

Cheers,
        Gary.
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