[OpenAFS-devel] debian-linux-i386-builder issues

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Christof Hanke wrote:

> Hi all, Jason,
>
> Apparently the buildbot now verifies a patch in two batches.
>
> However, the debian-linux-i386-builder is in both batches, but in the second one
> it fails with :
>
> Including ./rxkad.p.h at beginning of rxkad.h file.
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644  /home/buildslave/buildbot/slave/openafs/full/build/include/rx/rxkad.h
> /usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after `/home/buildslave/buildbot/slave/openafs/full/build/include/rx/rxkad.h'
> Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

I thought I had commented about this failure somewhere already, but don't 
see it in my mail logs.

The most straightforward assignment is as a make bug, since the $? 
(out-of-date) variable is expanding to the empty set.  If there are no 
dependencies that are out-of-date and the target is not marked with .PHONY 
or similar, then the rule for the target should not be running.  The 
simple workaround would be to replace $? with an explicit 'rxkad.h' (and 
presumably the other similar rules as well).  There is some reason to 
think that this is advisable in general, as I seem to recall some case in 
the FreeBSD build where the make implementation added some internal 
dependencies, and one of the special make variables expanded to have more 
than just the one value we were expecting.

-Ben