Heads up: Problems with parallel make

[Marco Atzeri]

On 16.02.2023 17:49, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 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?
> 

what are you using as test ?

Standard build tests are fine for both -1 and -2

Marco