On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 07:06 +0100, Markus Duft wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 17:56 +0100, Markus Duft wrote: > > Hi! > > ping...
ping ping.... at least a comment on this would be cool... don't leave me in the dark! i think my report is quite detailed, and not one of the "make is broken - fix it" ... > > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
