Re: [Lynx-dev] documentation build issue with e.g. -j3

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 08:20:38AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> if lynx is built with -j3 the generated body.html is broken since the
> $(CFG2HTML) target is not supposed to run multiple times in parallel

...I did see the comments in Debian #983209
 
> Suggested patch:
> -----------
> --- lynx-2.9.0dev.6.orig/makefile.in
> +++ lynx-2.9.0dev.6/makefile.in
> @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ LYNX_URL='@HOMEPAGE_URL@release/breakout
>  LYNXDOCS_URL='$(LYNX_URL)/docs/'
>  LYNXHELP_URL='$(LYNX_URL)/lynx_help/'
> 
> -@LYNXCFG_MAKE@$(CFG2HTML) :
> +@LYNXCFG_MAKE@$(CFG2HTML) &:
                             ^^

That looks like a feature specific to GNU make.

Offhand, Lynx's makefiles will only use POSIX make, adding "::".
If you really need _that_, it'll have to be as a patch in the Debian package.

For reference

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/make.html

>  @LYNXCFG_MAKE@ @echo 'Making htmlized lynx.cfg'
>  @LYNXCFG_MAKE@ cd $(SRC_DIR) && $(MAKE_RECUR) LYReadCFG.i
>  @LYNXCFG_MAKE@ @-rm -f $(CFG2HTML)
> -----------
> 
> cu Andreas
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/983209

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