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

On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 08:22:06PM +0100, Arash Esbati wrote:
> 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
> 

The patch worked in my first test; I'll use it and report back when it
fails.

Thanks,
 Thomas