On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 17:56 +0100, Markus Duft wrote: > Hi! ping...
> > I'm running make on x86 interix (SFU/SUA). All works like a charm, except > for occasional problems with multi-core machines (I'm not sure if the same > problems would occur on single cores too...). > > I'm seeing two different problems, the "bader" one being a jobserver token > leak. Sometimes make exits with messages like this: > > make: INTERNAL: Exiting with 3 jobserver tokens available; should be > 2! > > But much worse is the case where make simply hangs, and seems to be out of > jobserver tokens! Is this a known problem? I tried the patch from [1], but > that didn't make any difference. > > Also I found a patch against 3.80, adding the jobserver_tokens global > variable, so I assume that one has been incorporated into 3.81, since this > variable already exists... (?). > > I attached the output of this command and the corresponding .diff file: > while ( cd tests && perl ./run_make_tests.pl features/parallelism > -make ../make -debug -verbose ); do echo ...; done > xx 2>&1 & > > the test-1 log is seemingly another problem, which occurred while I tried to > faster provocate the error I'm reporting here by putting my 2 core AMD CPU > under heavy load. Ugh... another one :( > > FYI I attached the config.log too, so you can identify potential issues > caused by assumptions which may be wrong for interix. > > [1] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18124 > > ---- > > Now for the second problem, which is far easier to work around: Again only > occasionally I'm getting "make[N]: write error". After > R[eading]T[he]F[ine]S[source] I found out that ferror(stdout) triggers this > message. Strange... seems like there was an error writing to stdout..? or > could this point to an error writing to the jobserver fds? > > I worked around the problem for now by simply not exiting on this error, > since it's not too critical for me if a line in the output is missing or > something like that. Also since it's only occasionally, I can simple do make > again, If I really need all the output. > > BTW I never noticed missing output when I got "write error", but output > tends to be kilometers long, so I could have overseen that :) > > Any ideas regarding those two? > > P.S.: I just noticed that the --enable-case-insensitive-file-system (interix > is insensitive, as it uses window's fs') is win32 only as-is, since it uses > strcmpi. Attached is a patch fixing this for interix. Maybe this fixes for > this feature for mac osx too (is there support for max osx yet?). > > Thanks in advance, Cheers, > Markus Duft > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-make mailing list > Bug-make@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
