From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: transient build error after 'Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json' Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 01:22:11 -0400 Message-ID: <20130402052210.GA22089@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <7vhajqjh3v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Phil Hord , "git@vger.kernel.org" To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 02 07:22:44 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UMtgB-0002xs-9u for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:22:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759559Ab3DBFWP (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Apr 2013 01:22:15 -0400 Received: from 75-15-5-89.uvs.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([75.15.5.89]:51690 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757172Ab3DBFWO (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Apr 2013 01:22:14 -0400 Received: (qmail 6859 invoked by uid 107); 2 Apr 2013 05:24:03 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:24:03 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:22:11 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vhajqjh3v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 10:28:04AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Phil Hord 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 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