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

[Andreas Metzler]

Hello Thomas,

On 2021-02-28 Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 08:20:38AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > 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.

Yes, I think so, too.

> 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.
[...]

Well, the other straightforward option is disabling parallel make. Do
you support parallel make? If you do we will need to find a different
fix, OTOH if you do not then disabling parallel build in the Debian
package is probably the correct way to deal with the report.

cu Andreas
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