Heads up: Problems with parallel make

[Ken Brown]

On 2/14/2023 4:23 PM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 14.02.2023 17:49, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> There is a make 4.4.1 release candidate 4.40.0.90 with patches that 
>> may help to deal with this:
>>
>>      https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-4.4.0.90.tar.lz{,.sig}
>>
>> https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=110&set=custom
>>
> 
> test version built and on the way

The problems I reported with make 4.4 still exist in 4.4.0.90.

Until someone can figure out why this happens, you might want to 
consider building make so that it doesn't default to using a FIFO for 
its jobserver.  I suggested to the make developers that they provide a 
configure option for this purpose.  If they don't do this, I think you 
could accomplish the same thing by configuring make with 
ac_cv_func_mkfifo=no.

Ken