libxml2 use_parallel_build problem

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I couldn't upgrade from libxml2 2.6.31 to 2.6.32, and the reason is the "use_parallel_build yes" line that was added to the port in r36717. (I do have "buildmakejobs 2" in my macports.conf.) The build works fine, but the destroot phase doesn't:

$ sudo port upgrade libxml2
--->  Fetching libxml2
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for libxml2
--->  Extracting libxml2
--->  Configuring libxml2
--->  Building libxml2 with target all
--->  Staging libxml2 into destroot
Error: Target org.macports.destroot returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_textproc_libxml2/work/libxml2-2.6.32" && make -j2 install DESTDIR=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_textproc_libxml2/work/destroot " returned error 2
Command output: Making install in include
Making install in libxml
make  install-exec-hook
test -z "/opt/local/include/libxml2/libxml" || ../.././install-sh -c -d "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_textproc_libxml2/work/destroot/opt/local/include/libxml2/libxml"
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_textproc_libxml2/work/destroot/opt/local/include/libxml2/libxml
mkdir -p -- /opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_textproc_libxml2/work/destroot/opt/local/include/libxml2/libxml
mkdir: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_textproc_libxml2/work/destroot/opt/local/include/libxml2/libxml: File exists
make[3]: *** [install-xmlincHEADERS] Error 1
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
$

I had a similar problem with mysql5-devel after adding "use_parallel_build yes" to it. Maybe a similar workaround can work for libxml2, until they fix it upstream.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

As a quick workaround you can disable parallel building on the command line:

sudo port install libxml2 build.jobs=1

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

This seems to work around the problem

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

No response from maintainer in > 72 hours; committed in r37322.

[blb@…]

This was fixed generally in r36890, correct?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

It was fixed generally in MacPorts trunk so that only the build phase is run in parallel, and that will be in MacPorts 1.7.0, and then r37322 can be reverted.

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