Building lh-bootstrap-master

Building lh-bootstrap-master

[ImNotPC]

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Hey Group,

I'm attempting to build lh-bootstrap-master but make is complaining:

make: unrecognized option '--jobserver-style=pipe'

Indeed, my version of make doesn't have the --jobserver-style option. If 
I remove the reference to --jobserver-style option from ./make the 
package builds without any obvious errors but doesn't appear to be a 
complete build. My make is GNU Make 4.3 running on a Mageia 8 system. Do 
I need to downgrade make? Any suggestions?

Jeff

Re: Building lh-bootstrap-master

[Alexis]

ImNotPC <imnotpc@Rock3d.net> writes:

> I'm attempting to build lh-bootstrap-master but make is 
> complaining:
>
> make: unrecognized option '--jobserver-style=pipe'
>
> Indeed, my version of make doesn't have the --jobserver-style 
> option. If I remove the reference to --jobserver-style option 
> from ./make the package builds without any obvious errors but 
> doesn't appear to be a complete build. My make is GNU Make 4.3 
> running on a Mageia 8 system. Do I need to downgrade make? Any 
> suggestions?

i take it you mean "_upgrade_ make"? According to the GNU Make 
ChangeLog, the `--jobserver-style` option was added on 2022-08-02, 
whereas 4.3 was released in January 2020, and 4.4 was released in 
October 2022.


Alexis.

Re: Building lh-bootstrap-master

[ImNotPC]

On 4/26/24 07:53, Alexis wrote:
> ImNotPC <imnotpc@Rock3d.net> writes:
>
>> I'm attempting to build lh-bootstrap-master but make is complaining:
>>
>> make: unrecognized option '--jobserver-style=pipe'
>>
>> Indeed, my version of make doesn't have the --jobserver-style option. 
>> If I remove the reference to --jobserver-style option from ./make the 
>> package builds without any obvious errors but doesn't appear to be a 
>> complete build. My make is GNU Make 4.3 running on a Mageia 8 system. 
>> Do I need to downgrade make? Any suggestions?
>
> i take it you mean "_upgrade_ make"? According to the GNU Make 
> ChangeLog, the `--jobserver-style` option was added on 2022-08-02, 
> whereas 4.3 was released in January 2020, and 4.4 was released in 
> October 2022.
>
>
> Alexis.

Ahhh. The docs said make later than 3.81 so I assumed the option had 
been removed since then and I needed to downgrade. I can easily build 
the newer make so I'll do that and try again.

Thanks,

Jeff

Re: Building lh-bootstrap-master

[Alexis]

ImNotPC <imnotpc@Rock3d.net> writes:

> Ahhh. The docs said make later than 3.81 so I assumed the option 
> had been removed since then and I needed to downgrade.

Laurent,

Should the lh-bootstrap README be changed so that:

> GNU make, version 3.81 or later

is replaced by something like:

> GNU make, version 3.81 or later. Versions prior to 4.4, released 
> in October 2022, don't have the `--jobserver-style` option 
> available; in these cases, avoid using the `-j` option, to allow 
> (slow) building.


Alexis.

Re: Building lh-bootstrap-master

[Laurent Bercot]

>Should the lh-bootstrap README be changed so that:

  Yes, I updated the README.md, good point.

Re: Building lh-bootstrap-master

[Laurent Bercot]

>Indeed, my version of make doesn't have the --jobserver-style option. If I remove the reference to --jobserver-style option from ./make the package builds without any obvious errors but doesn't appear to be a complete build.

  Yeah, for some reason parallel builds weren't fully working before
this option (I knew more when I debugged this but I've since
forgotten). I don't think I realized the option was so recent.
As Alexis says, your best choice is to use GNU Make 4.4, but if
you cannot, the workaround is not to use any -j option to make,
which should eventually, very slowly, get you a complete build.

--
  Laurent