Automating the master build from scratch requires some annoying hassles thanks to 1ea1646e6f224dbc5b3922bb3c65aab4d71a9cb9. This can be worked around by running the requisite commands first, i.e., rm -f po-docs/podfiles && make -C po-docs update-po && make But after that, there still appears to be a race in the po-docs build (reproduced on -j12 on an E5-1650 v2): make[2]: Entering directory 'libguestfs-git/src/libguestfs/po-docs' Making all in ja make[3]: Entering directory 'libguestfs-git/src/libguestfs/po-docs/ja' make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'guestfish-actions.pod', needed by 'guestfish.1'. Stop. This appears to go away if you set .NOTPARALLEL in all of po-docs. Signed-off-by: Richard Tollerton <rich.tollerton(a)ni.com&gt; --- po-docs/Makefile.am | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/po-docs/Makefile.am b/po-docs/Makefile.am index a274898..617e8ad 100644 --- a/po-docs/Makefile.am +++ b/po-docs/Makefile.am @@ -88,3 +88,5 @@ podfiles: Makefile for f in `cat $(top_srcdir)/po/POTFILES-pl`; do echo $(top_srcdir)/$$f; done >> $@-t LC_ALL=C sort -o $@-t $@-t mv $@-t $@ + +.NOTPARALLEL: -- 2.6.2