RE: Can't compile docs

[James Lowe]

Hello,



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From: address@hidden address@hidden on behalf of Graham Percival address@hidden
Sent: 07 January 2011 08:38
To: Phil Holmes
Cc: Lily devel
Subject: Re: Can't compile docs

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:
> Here's the file itself.

Good news, very good news, and bad news.

1. your patch is fine.
2. you're not crazy.  I've reproduced the error in lilydev with current git.
3. I haven't solved the problem yet.  Interestingly, there's
absolutely no problem with current git; I've compiled it a couple of
times (both from a clean checkout, and from a previously-compiled
state) on my normal machine.

The fact that ubuntu 10.04 native can compile git, but ubuntu 10.04
virtualized cannot, is not a good sign.  But at least I'm seeing the
same thing, so I can solve it.

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I noticed yesterday that the Update Manager for LilyDev reported some 
fixes/updates for git-core and gitk.

One thing that does come to mind here and that is resources of the VM/VM Host.

I seem to remember that in some odd cases I would get 'read/write' errors on a 
directory while building docs. I also know that some linux distributions will 
go into read-only mode when IO is 'too much' for the kernel or the resources (I 
use the term loosely) are high - I see this often in my job, although I don't 
support linux I have to touch most different OSs daily in some shape or form 
and get feedback from many users.

So knowing that, I simply upped my RAM allocation of my VM by another GB and 
did another make; make-doc (not even a make clean) and things worked and I 
haven't had such problems since.

I realise this is anecdotal, but as I also know our doc build process is shall 
we say, highly-strung so often I will try some 'turn it off and turn it on 
again' method before I ask for help.

Also Phil if you haven't realised already you can sometimes make use of 
Snapshots with Virtual Box, once I get a clean doc build I take a snapshot and 
then I know I always have a last known good that I can roll back too and 
reapply a patch or edit to see if it was my mistake or something else.

Just my tuppence
James