Re: No rule to make target 'doc/misc/modus-themes.texi', needed by 'info/dir'. Stop.

Thomas Klausner <[email protected]> writes:

> I ~daily build emacs from git, in a highly parallel build. A couple
> days ago the build started failing, most of the time, not always,
> with:
>
> /usr/pkg/bin/gmake actual-all || /usr/pkg/bin/gmake advice-on-failure make-target=all exit-status=$?
> gmake[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/wip/emacs-git/work/emacs'
> /usr/pkg/bin/gmake -C lib all
> /usr/pkg/bin/gmake -C doc/lispref DOCLANG=default info
> /usr/pkg/bin/gmake -C doc/lispintro DOCLANG=default info
> /usr/pkg/bin/gmake -C doc/emacs DOCLANG=default info
> gmake[1]: *** No rule to make target 'doc/misc/modus-themes.texi', needed by 'info/dir'.  Stop.
> gmake[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> gmake[2]: Entering directory '/tmp/wip/emacs-git/work/emacs/doc/lispref'
> mkdir -p ../../info
> gmake[2]: Entering directory '/tmp/wip/emacs-git/work/emacs/doc/lispintro'
> mkdir -p ../../info
> gmake[2]: Entering directory '/tmp/wip/emacs-git/work/emacs/doc/emacs'
> mkdir -p ../../info
>
> I suspect this rule in lisp/Makefile.in:
>
> org-manuals: main-first
>         $(AM_V_at)$(MAKE) -C ../doc/misc org.texi modus-themes.texi
>
> is not parallel-make-safe-enough, but I don't have a fix.
>
> Does anyone else have one?

There is a proposed fix in bug#81332[1] which is also not
"parallel-make-safe-enough", at least acc. my experience.

HTH.  Best, Arash

Footnotes:
[1]  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2026-07/msg00428.html