id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,blockedby,blocking,branch_state,votes 4070,'make install' occasionally fails as: /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '.../mc-4.8.24/image/usr/share/mc/mc.lib': File exists,slyfox,andrew_b,"The install failure originally reported by Rolf Eike Beer who encountered the failure on '''sparc''' machine (very high parallelism and relatively slow individual cores). The relevant build log snippet: {{{ $ make -j20 DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/mc-4.8.24/image install ... /usr/lib/portage/python3.6/ebuild-helpers/xattr/install -c -m 644 mc.lib '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/mc-4.8.24/image/usr/share/mc' /usr/lib/portage/python3.6/ebuild-helpers/xattr/install -c -m 644 mc.lib mc.charsets '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/mc-4.8.24/image/usr/share/mc' ... /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/mc-4.8.24/image/usr/share/mc/mc.lib': File exists }}} Here '''.../xattr/install''' is a tiny wrapper around '''/usr/bin/install'''. The race condition is in '''/usr/bin/install''' itself: {{{ # sequential works: $ ( install -c -m 644 /bin/bash . ; install -c -m 644 /bin/bash .; wait ) # parallel fails: $ ( install -c -m 644 /bin/bash . & install -c -m 644 /bin/bash .; wait ) install: cannot create regular file './bash': File exists }}} I think '''mc.lib''' gets installed twice because it's lished in in two '''_DATA''' variables in '''misc/Makefile.am''': {{{ dist_pkgdata_DATA = \ mc.lib pkgdata_DATA = \ $(dist_pkgdata_DATA) \ $(PKGDATA_OUT) }}} ",defect,closed,major,4.8.25,mc-core,4.8.24,fixed,,,,,merged,committed-master