Make fails with fedora build options set

[Stanislav Ochotnicky]

On Thu 01 May 2014 01:34:43 PM CEST Jon Kent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get a GnuBatch package into Fedora, which is currently
> being reviewed. One of the points raised in the review was that I was
> running make without any Fedora options. I've added these as requested
> so the make line now looks like:
>
> make %{?_smp_mflags} CFLAGS="%{optflags}" BINDIR=%{_bindir}
>
> This expands out to :
>
> make -j4 CFLAGS="-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
> -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches
> -m64 -mtune=generic" BINDIR=/usr/bin
>
> However with these options the build is now failing where is was working
> fine before using just make. The errors are related to being unable to
> find the header files (i.e. config.h). I've tried added -I option
> pointing to the header directory but this did not help.
>
> What I don't understand is why this worked before, where as with these
> make options set the build now fails. Any pointers much appreciated as
> I'm just going in circles here trying to resolve this problem.
>
> The below is an part of the output I get when this fails:
>
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/home/jon/rpmbuild/BUILD/gnubatch-1.10/util'
> gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
> -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches
> -m64 -mtune=generic   -c -o helpparse.o helpparse.c
> helpparse.c:18:20: fatal error: config.h: No such file or directory
>  #include "config.h"

Another (relatively common) problem is the parallelization (-j4)
tripping the makefile up. I.e. dependencies for some targets are
incomplete and config.h is not yet generated when they execute.

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