Re: transient build error after 'Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json'

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 1, 2013, 17:28 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhajqjh3v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CABURp0os62JCPCRsvQ+NneGaSobTUmgs7oZ9SqUiTH8AG0hPmQ@mail.gmail.com>

Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> writes:

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> 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.