build: (initial?) failure to build xproto on Alpine

fanquake commented at 10:54 am on May 14, 2025: member

0# podman run -it alpine
1apk update && apk add pkgconf patch python3 cmake g++ bash curl gcc git make && \
2	git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin && \
3	cd bitcoin && \
4	make -C depends qt -j13

This will fail with

 0Staging xproto...
 1make[1]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec'
 2Making install in specs
 3make[2]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs'
 4Making install in SIAddresses
 5make[3]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs/SIAddresses'
 6make[4]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs/SIAddresses'
 7make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
 8make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
 9make[4]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs/SIAddresses'
10make[3]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs/SIAddresses'
11make[3]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs'
12make[4]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs'
13make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
14make[4]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs'
15make[3]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs'
16make[2]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs'
17make[2]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec'
18make[3]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec'
19make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
20 ./install-sh -c -d '/bitcoin/depends/work/staging/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/bitcoin/depends/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/lib/pkgconfig'
21 ./install-sh -c -d '/bitcoin/depends/work/staging/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/bitcoin/depends/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/include/X11'
22 ./install-sh -c -d '/bitcoin/depends/work/staging/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/bitcoin/depends/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/include/X11'
23mkdir: can't create directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/staging/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/bitcoin/depends/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/include/X11': File exists
24make[3]: *** [Makefile:508: install-xprotoHEADERS] Error 1
25make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
26 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 xproto.pc '/bitcoin/depends/work/staging/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/bitcoin/depends/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/lib/pkgconfig'
27 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 Xfuncproto.h Xpoll.h '/bitcoin/depends/work/staging/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/bitcoin/depends/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/include/X11'
28make[3]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec'
29make[2]: *** [Makefile:838: install-am] Error 2
30make[2]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec'
31make[1]: *** [Makefile:535: install-recursive] Error 1
32make[1]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec'
33make: *** [funcs.mk:342: /bitcoin/depends/work/staging/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/.stamp_staged] Error 2
34make: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends'

If you restart the build it then picks up and continues:

 0make -C depends/ qt
 1make: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends'
 2Staging xproto...
 3make[1]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec'
 4Making install in specs
 5make[2]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs'
 6Making install in SIAddresses
 7make[3]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs/SIAddresses'
 8make[4]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs/SIAddresses'
 9make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
10make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
11make[4]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs/SIAddresses'
12make[3]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs/SIAddresses'
13make[3]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs'
14make[4]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs'
15make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
16make[4]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs'
17make[3]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs'
18make[2]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/specs'
19make[2]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec'
20make[3]: Entering directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec'
21make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
22 ./install-sh -c -d '/bitcoin/depends/work/staging/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/bitcoin/depends/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/include/X11'
23 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 Xfuncproto.h Xpoll.h '/bitcoin/depends/work/staging/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/bitcoin/depends/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/include/X11'
24 ./install-sh -c -d '/bitcoin/depends/work/staging/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/bitcoin/depends/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/lib/pkgconfig'
25 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 xproto.pc '/bitcoin/depends/work/staging/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/bitcoin/depends/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/lib/pkgconfig'
26 ./install-sh -c -d '/bitcoin/depends/work/staging/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/bitcoin/depends/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/include/X11'
27 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ap_keysym.h DECkeysym.h HPkeysym.h keysymdef.h keysym.h Sunkeysym.h Xalloca.h Xarch.h Xatom.h Xdefs.h XF86keysym.h Xfuncs.h X.h Xmd.h Xosdefs.h Xos.h Xos_r.h Xproto.h Xprotostr.h Xthreads.h Xw32defs.h XWDFile.h Xwindows.h Xwinsock.h '/bitcoin/depends/work/staging/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec/bitcoin/depends/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/include/X11'
28make[3]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec'
29make[2]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec'
30make[1]: Leaving directory '/bitcoin/depends/work/build/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/xproto/7.0.31-7e4871430ec'
31Postprocessing xproto...
32Caching xproto...

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willcl-ark commented at 5:12 pm on May 19, 2025: member

This appears to be related to make parallelism. It can be circumvented by using make -j1.

Another approach might be to patch the (failing) mkdir call with mkdir -p, although this might possibly also just mask underlying issue…

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build: (initial?) failure to build xproto on Alpine #32494