Heads up: Problems with parallel make

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-02-13 16:05, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Several of my packages that used to build fine with parallel make now require 
> 'make -j1'.  Without this I either get strange errors or a hang.
> I can't find any pattern to explain when the problem occurs and when it doesn't, 
> but it seems to be due to a change in make, starting with version 4.4.  By 
> default, make now uses a FIFO rather than a pipe in its jobserver 
> implementation.  You can override this with the make flag
>    --jobserver-style=pipe
> In all cases where I've tried this, parallel make works again.
> It wouldn't surprise me if there's a bug in Cygwin's FIFO implementation that's 
> responsible for this, but I haven't yet tried to track it down.

There is some glibc? compatibility issue also with this recommended workaround.

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