From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bootstrap failure using 'make -j4' [Cygwin] Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 15:41:00 +0200 Message-ID: <874oi0kqab.fsf@engster.org> References: <4BF69E5B.7040006@alice.it> <83vdahz0v0.fsf@gnu.org> <4BF6BB85.3010504@alice.it> <83r5l5yw33.fsf@gnu.org> <4BF70D0B.9050106@alice.it> <83d3wozamt.fsf@gnu.org> <4BF7B965.9040203@swipnet.se> <838w7cp0hx.fsf@gnu.org> <4BF7D551.1020204@swipnet.se> <834oi0oyw6.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274535679 18018 80.91.229.12 (22 May 2010 13:41:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 13:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 22 15:41:18 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFox2-00021l-Dl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 15:41:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42435 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFox1-00082u-Tx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 09:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35634 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFowt-0007yS-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 09:41:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFowo-0006y4-Rs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 09:41:07 -0400 Original-Received: from m61s02.vlinux.de ([83.151.21.164]:46196) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFowo-0006xk-Md; Sat, 22 May 2010 09:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-060-014.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.60.14] helo=spaten) by m61s02.vlinux.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFown-0003vc-2N; Sat, 22 May 2010 15:41:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: <834oi0oyw6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 22 May 2010 16:21:29 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= , angelo.graziosi@alice.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:125069 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 15:00:01 +0200 >> From: Jan Dj=E4rv >> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it >>=20 >> > I think the -p switch to mkdir is not portable. >> > >>=20 >> I has been in The Single UNIX =AE Specification since 1997 at least. I = think it=20 >> was in POSIX 2 as well (1990), but I lost it, so I can't check. >>=20 >> Do you know any system that doesn't have it? > > Not by name, no. But this is in the GNU Coding Statndards: > > Generally, stick to the widely-supported (usually POSIX-specified) > options and features of these programs. For example, don't use `mkdir > -p', convenient as it may be, because a few systems don't support it = at > all and with others, it is not safe for parallel execution. > > If this is no longer a consideration, perhaps we should ask Richard to > amend standards.texi. In autoconf, Solaris 8 is mentioned with a thread-unsafe 'mkdir -p', so this is still an issue. Autoconf's MKDIR_P falls back to 'install-sh -d' when GNU mkdir isn't available. -David