Re: Heads up: Problems with parallel make

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 2/16/2023 2:47 AM, 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.
>>
>> Ken
> 
> version 2 uploaded.

Thanks, Marco.  As expected, that fixes the problem for my test case 
(building TeX Live).  Obviously it would be better if the make 
developers would provide a configure option to use a pipe for the 
jobserver, but this is a good workaround if they don't.

Ken