[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#1105378: lazarus: FTBFS with make --shuffle=reverse

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi Peter,

On Fri, 2025-12-19 at 13:12 +0000, Peter Blackman wrote:
> On 28/10/2025 12:53, Peter B wrote:
> > ISTM the cause of this bug is line 79 in the current rules file;
> > 
> > clean: clean-patched clean-make-files
> > 
> > The left right ordering is critical.
> > Solution is to make clean-make-files
> > depend on clean-patched so the targets
> > are always executed in the right order.
> 
> Well, that didn’t work!
> It seems clean-make-files also needs to run
> independently of clean-patched.
Indeed, the right order was enforced more by the order of calling
targets rather than the dependency of targets.
This is a bad design, but was so old that we can't complain about it.
> 
> Also, adding .WAIT everywhere in d/rules did not fix the bug
> as likely the upstream makefiles also depends on strict left
> right ordering as well.
Probably not the right solution
> 
> Going to add .NOPARALLEL to prevent any issues arising from
> attempts to parallel build, and put priority back to minor.
Neither this one
> 
> Tempted to add 'wontfix' as I don't see anyway this build can
> be made to work with --shuffle=reverse.
I would rather try to give it to a chat bot and ask it to fix that or
at least draw the dependency graph and the execution flows. Or maybe
even better, try to create a new make file based on latest Debian
process rather than this legacy make file.

I  unfortunately don't have time for that now, but I planned to rework
this make file to make it smaller and more conform to what we do with
other tools. However this may take a while because the nature of FPC as
a compiler render some intermediate steps mandatory.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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