Heads up: Problems with parallel make

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-02-16 00:47, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 15.02.2023 19:09, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> 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.

> version 2 uploaded.

Hi guys,

Might be good to follow up on bug-make at gnu dot org to let them know that 
pre-release does not help us, and it has been rereleased building with 
ac_cv_func_mkfifo=no which does.

I notice that posix_spawn is defaulted, any chance it could be implicated?

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