[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 590718] New: docs build failures with -jN: cp: cannot create regular file `build/image.entities': File exists

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  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | Ver: git
           Summary: docs build failures with -jN: cp: cannot create regular
                    file `build/image.entities': File exists
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gstreamer (core)
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: t.i.m at zen.co.uk
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: Unspecified
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


I regularly get build failures when building/distchecking GStreamer core with
-j4:

...
Writing index.html for book(index)
Writing index.sgml for book(index)
Writing gstreamer-plugins.devhelp for book(index)
Writing gstreamer-plugins.devhelp2 for book(index)
-- Fixing Crossreferences
Making all in faq
cp: cannot create regular file `build/image.entities': File exists
make[6]: *** [check-local] Error 1
make[5]: *** [html/index.html] Error 2
make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
*** Generating PS output ***
Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/catalog
Using stylesheet: /usr/share/docbook-utils/docbook-utils.dsl#print
Working on:
/home/tpm/gst/git/gstreamer/gstreamer-0.10.23.5/_build/docs/faq/build/faq.xml
jade:/usr/share/sgml/declaration/xml.dcl:31:27:W: characters in the document
character set with numbers exceeding 65535 not supported
x -i print -d /usr/share/docbook-utils/docbook-utils.dsl#print -V paper-type=A4
/usr/share/sgml/declaration/xml.dcl
/home/tpm/gst/git/gstreamer/gstreamer-0.10.23.5/_build/docs/faq/build/faq.xml
Done.
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [distcheck] Error 2


This looks like a problem in docs/manuals.mak (I attempted to fix this in
commit 7a265c1451ff97bf11064f8d214ef89083ba6641 but in retrospect that commit
doesn't make sense at all and doesn't even touch the bits where images.entities
are created).


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