Failed to compile 0.8 in OSX

[yannkechichian]

Compiling 0.8 in OS X 10.8.5 yielded the following error:

/usr/bin/ranlib: file: lib/libjemalloc.a(atomic.o) has no symbols
/usr/bin/ranlib: file: lib/libjemalloc.a(hash.o) has no symbols
/usr/bin/ranlib: file: lib/libjemalloc.a(mb.o) has no symbols
/usr/bin/ar crus lib/libjemalloc_pic.a src/jemalloc.pic.o src/arena.pic.o src/atomic.pic.o src/base.pic.o src/bitmap.pic.o src/chunk.pic.o src/chunk_dss.pic.o src/chunk_mmap.pic.o src/ckh.pic.o src/ctl.pic.o src/extent.pic.o src/hash.pic.o src/huge.pic.o src/mb.pic.o src/mutex.pic.o src/prof.pic.o src/quarantine.pic.o src/rtree.pic.o src/stats.pic.o src/tcache.pic.o src/util.pic.o src/tsd.pic.o src/zone.pic.o
/usr/bin/ranlib: file: lib/libjemalloc_pic.a(atomic.pic.o) has no symbols
/usr/bin/ranlib: file: lib/libjemalloc_pic.a(hash.pic.o) has no symbols
/usr/bin/ranlib: file: lib/libjemalloc_pic.a(mb.pic.o) has no symbols
link: x86_64-apple-darwin/rt/stage0/librustrt.dylib
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-g++-4.2: x86_64-apple-darwin/rt/stage0/libuv/libuv.a: No such file or directory
make: *** [x86_64-apple-darwin/rt/stage0/librustrt.dylib] Error 1

[pnkfelix]

@yannkechichian Were you using make -jN for some N? And/or did you try running make again?

There was a race condition in the Makefile that did not land in 0.8, I believe, but it has been fixed since then...

[yannkechichian]

@pnkfelix I tried to use make -jN without any success. Also, I use clang-500.2.75 for the compilation. I am going to investigate and get more information about my environment hoping it could be relevant.

[pnkfelix]

@yannkechichian To be clear, when I wrote make -jN, I meant something like make -j2, make -j4, ... basically any make -j invocation except make -j1.

That is, when there is a race condition in makefiles, the usual way to compensate for them is to ensure that there are no -j flags being passed, or pass -j1 explicitly.

[yannkechichian]

@pnkfelix Absolutely, with N the number of jobs at once but I get the same error though.

[yannkechichian]

@pnkfelix Mea culpa, I finally managed to make it work using make -jN after a new configuration of the sources tree. All good, thanks.

[pnkfelix]

closing.