[New-bugs-announce] [issue36464] Python 2.7 build install fails intermittently with -j on MacOS

[Paul Smith]

New submission from Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net>:

Maybe no one cares anymore, but I've discovered that if I run make with -j the installation sometimes fails with this error:

install: mkdir /Users/build/.../dist/python/x86_64-darwin/lib: File exists

I believe it's because the targets altbininstall and libainstall as well as $(DESTSHARED) ($(BINLIBDEST)/lib-dynload) all contain a for loop which tries to create $(LIBDIR).  The makefile uses the install -d command to create directories and this command will fail if the directory already exists.

I haven't investigated the full dependency chain but at least two of the above targets don't have a relationship that forces make to avoid running them both at the same time.

Maybe a better solution would be to create a separate target like make-directories or something that creates all the directories and have the other targets depend on that one target.  Or something.

As it is, my MacOS builds fail about 1 in 5 times or similar.

Interestingly my Linux builds never fail.  Not sure if install works differently on Linux, or the timing is just different there.

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components: Build
messages: 339078
nosy: madscientist
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python 2.7 build install fails intermittently with -j on MacOS
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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