Peter Rosin skrev 2012-01-10 00:07: > Hi! > > distcheck-configure-flags-am.test fails on MSYS. I think the cause is > that some process lingers with CWD in the _build directory which some > other process tries to remove. On MSYS, it's not possible to remove a > directory that is "in use" like that. > > Ugly patch coming up shortly.
As promised. Cheers, Peter >From 8ba67ab9885c8987d7a09ad650bcda69675b8285 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Rosin <p...@lysator.liu.se> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:14:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] dist: try to avoid race on MSYS when removing the distdir Fixes automake bug#10470. lib/am/distdir.am (am__remove_distdir): Add a short sleep to make old processes release the directory before an attempt to remove it is made. On MSYS, it is not possible to remove a directory that is "in use". --- lib/am/distdir.am | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/am/distdir.am b/lib/am/distdir.am index d8c1a89..e56d33b 100644 --- a/lib/am/distdir.am +++ b/lib/am/distdir.am @@ -22,10 +22,13 @@ if %?TOPDIR_P% distdir = $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) top_distdir = $(distdir) +## On MSYS (1.0.17) it is not possible to remove a directory that is +## in use, hence the sleep call, which gives processes time to exit +## and "release" the directory before it is removed. am__remove_distdir = \ { test ! -d "$(distdir)" \ || { find "$(distdir)" -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' \ - && rm -fr "$(distdir)"; }; } + && sleep 1 && rm -fr "$(distdir)"; }; } am__post_remove_distdir = $(am__remove_distdir) endif %?TOPDIR_P% -- 1.7.5.1