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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 16 2020 - 11:44:29 CDT

Hi,
  Thanks for reporting this. This is the first I've heard of this issue.
I'm happy to apply the tiny patch. Let me know if you know of any other
similar issues that I can help iron out.

Best regards,
  John Stone
  johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 01:32:59PM +0200, Francisco Ramos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Some people are hitting a build failure when using high -j make options like
> -j18:
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/sci-chemistry/vmd-
> 1.9.4_alpha43/work/plugins/bossconvert'
> make[2]: Entering directory '/var/tmp/portage/sci-chemistry/vmd-
> 1.9.4_alpha43/work/plugins/catdcd'
> mkdir -p ../compile/lib_LINUX/bin/catdcd5.2
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -march=native -O2 -pipe -I. -I../include
> -I../compile/lib_LINUX/molfile -c ./hash.c -fPIC -o
> ./compile/lib_LINUX/bin/catdcd5.2/hash.o
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -march=native -O2 -pipe -I. -I../include
> -I../compile/lib_LINUX/molfile -c ./catdcd.c -fPIC -o
> ./compile/lib_LINUX/bin/catdcd5.2/catdcd.o
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target
> '../compile/lib_LINUX/molfile/libmolfile_plugin.a', needed by
> '../compile/lib_LINUX/bin/catdcd5.2/catdcd'. Stop.
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> ./catdcd.c:17:10: fatal error: libmolfile_plugin.h: No such file or directory
> 17 | #include "libmolfile_plugin.h"
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:54: ../compile/lib_LINUX/bin/catdcd5.2/catdcd.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/sci-chemistry/vmd-
> 1.9.4_alpha43/work/plugins/catdcd'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:177: bins] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>
> In Gentoo we were applying a patch to fix it for 1.9.3... but it looks to be
> still needed for 1.9.4aX. This one is the updated version that works for
> 1.9.4a43:
>
> --- a/plugins/Makefile
> +++ b/plugins/Makefile
> @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
> win32staticlibs: win32molfilelibs
> for dir in $(BUILDDIRS); do cd $$dir && $(MAKE) win32staticlibs && cd
> . || exit 1 ; done
>
> -bins:
> +bins: molfilelibs
> for dir in molfile_plugin $(BUILDDIRS); do cd $$dir && $(MAKE) bins &&
> cd .. || exit 1 ; done
>
> win32bins:
>
> Maybe it could be upstreamed finally
>
> Thanks a lot 

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