Problems with parallel build and SeaVGABIOS

[Paul Menzel]

Dear SeaBIOS folks,

building SeaBIOS for coreboot with SeaVGABIOS in parallel, I get an error.
> $ nproc
> 8
> $ git log --oneline -1
> b98c658 drop "etc/boot-cpus" fw_cfg file and reuse legacy QEMU_CFG_NB_CPUS
> $ grep VGA_COREBOOT .config
> CONFIG_VGA_COREBOOT=y
> $ make menuconfig && make clean && make -j
> scripts/kconfig/mconf /home/pmenzel/src/seabios/src/Kconfig
>
> *** End of the configuration.
> *** Execute 'make' to start the build or try 'make help'.
>
> Compiling to assembler out/src/asm-offsets.s
>   Precompiling out/vgasrc/vgalayout.lds
> cc1: fatal error: opening output file out/vgasrc/vgalayout.lds: No such file or directory
> compilation terminated.
> Makefile:138: recipe for target 'out/vgasrc/vgalayout.lds' failed
> make: *** [out/vgasrc/vgalayout.lds] Error 1
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>   Build Kconfig config file

Probably the Makefile just needs some tweaking. Please find the
configuration file attached.

Kind regards,

Paul

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 03:24:27PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear SeaBIOS folks,
>
> building SeaBIOS for coreboot with SeaVGABIOS in parallel, I get an error.
> > $ nproc
> > 8
> > $ git log --oneline -1
> > b98c658 drop "etc/boot-cpus" fw_cfg file and reuse legacy QEMU_CFG_NB_CPUS
> > $ grep VGA_COREBOOT .config
> > CONFIG_VGA_COREBOOT=y
> > $ make menuconfig && make clean && make -j
> > scripts/kconfig/mconf /home/pmenzel/src/seabios/src/Kconfig
> >
> > *** End of the configuration.
> > *** Execute 'make' to start the build or try 'make help'.
> >
> > Compiling to assembler out/src/asm-offsets.s
> >   Precompiling out/vgasrc/vgalayout.lds
> > cc1: fatal error: opening output file out/vgasrc/vgalayout.lds: No such file or directory
> > compilation terminated.
> > Makefile:138: recipe for target 'out/vgasrc/vgalayout.lds' failed
> > make: *** [out/vgasrc/vgalayout.lds] Error 1
> > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> >   Build Kconfig config file
>
> Probably the Makefile just needs some tweaking. Please find the
> configuration file attached.

Thanks Paul.  Alas, I can't reproduce this issue (even with your
config).  I don't know why you'd get the above error.

-Kevin