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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: transient build error after 'Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json'
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 01:22:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130402052210.GA22089@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhajqjh3v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 10:28:04AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I have not seen this before, which makes me think it is something new
> > in the makefiles.  But maybe it was a one-time fluke. When I ran
> > 'make' again, it proceeded as normal.
> > ...
> > $ make prefix=/home/hordp all doc man
> > ...
> >     GEN git-add--interactive
> > Writing perl.mak for Git
> > Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
> > make[2]: *** [perl.mak] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [instlibdir] Error 2
> > make: *** [git-add--interactive] Error 2
> > $ make prefix=/home/hordp all doc man
> >     GEN perl/PM.stamp
> >     SUBDIR perl
> > /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL PREFIX='/home/hordp' INSTALL_BASE=''
> > --localedir='/home/hordp/share/locale'
> > Writing perl.mak for Git
> > Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
> >     GEN git-add--interactive
> >     GEN git-difftool
> >     GEN git-archimport
> 
> I've also seen build failure with -j<something> in perl/
> subdirectory from time to time, but the failure has been fairly
> elusive for me that I haven't had a chance to look into what
> triggers it.

The one I have seen usually involves errors around "perl.mak"; this
might be a new form of it, or it might be different.

Previous analysis and a patch (which I have no idea if it helps or not,
as I can't reproduce the problem at will):

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/158251

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2013-04-02  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-01 16:38 transient build error after 'Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json' Phil Hord
2013-04-01 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-02  5:22   ` Jeff King [this message]

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