Missing dependency in Makefile
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Dear Bug Team!
This is a bug report about building XEmacs, not running it.
I downloaded xemacs-21.4.14.tar.bz2, unpacked it and did
% ./configure --prefix=$HOME
Then I tried to build with:
% make -j -l 1
Producing `src/Emacs.ad.h' from `etc/Emacs.ad'.
Resetting `src/sheap-adjust.h'.
Building finder database ...
rm -f lisp/auto-autoloads.el
/bin/sh: line 1: /u/avised/inst/xemacs-21.4.14/src/xemacs: No such file or directory
/u/avised/inst/xemacs-21.4.14/src/xemacs -batch -no-autoloads \
-l autoload -f batch-update-directory lisp
make: /u/avised/inst/xemacs-21.4.14/src/xemacs: Command not found
make: *** [lisp/auto-autoloads.el] Error 127
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [lisp/finder-inf.el] Error 127
Something is trying to run src/xemacs, but that target has not yet
been built. The Makefile should state the dependency so that
src/xemacs can be built or rebuilt before it is needed. Otherwise,
the Makefile works only by accident in that targets happen to be built
in the right order, although make is not given instructions to do so.
So a single-job build happens to work, but the build breaks with
parallelization (as above).
Anything in the build system which needs src/xemacs should have a
dependency on that file so things can be built in the correct order.
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