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[spurious parallel build bug] make -j fails with: "mv: mv: cannot stat `perl.mak': No such file or directory"

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IMIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date
Apr 27, 2009, 09:48 UTC
Message-ID
<20090427094843.GA5849@elte.hu>
I got this when i built v1.6.3-rc3 for the first time:
$ make -j
[...]
    CC builtin-annotate.o
    CC builtin-apply.o
    CC builtin-archive.o
    CC builtin-bisect--helper.o
mv: mv: cannot stat `perl.mak': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `perl.mak': No such file or directory
    CC builtin-blame.o
mv: cannot stat `perl.mak': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `perl.mak': No such file or directory
cannot stat `perl.mak': No such file or directory
a plain 'make' worked.

Interestingly, a second attempt to reproduce it after a 'make clean' failed to trigger the bug. So it's either timing sensitive or there's some other weirdness that caused this.

	Ingo
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