From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Cc: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Heads up: Problems with parallel make
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:44:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871214fe-aa00-5c51-7145-82737e830fcc@Shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c9fb865-5f11-67ec-81a5-9c1ee37b5ee1@cornell.edu>
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.
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to cut
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-13 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-13 23:05 Ken Brown
2023-02-13 23:44 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2023-02-14 0:38 ` Ken Brown
2023-02-14 16:49 ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-14 21:23 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-02-15 18:09 ` Ken Brown
2023-02-16 7:47 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-02-16 16:49 ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-16 18:57 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-02-16 22:48 ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-17 2:21 ` Ken Brown
2023-02-19 22:50 ` Ken Brown
2023-02-20 17:00 ` Achim Gratz
2023-02-20 17:14 ` Ken Brown
2023-02-20 17:34 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-02-20 19:12 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-02-20 19:45 ` Ken Brown
2023-02-20 22:00 ` Ken Brown
2023-02-20 23:29 ` Ken Brown
2023-02-21 0:48 ` Ken Brown
2023-02-27 21:41 ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-27 22:45 ` Ken Brown
2023-03-02 6:32 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-02-20 17:35 ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-14 2:33 ` Ken Brown
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