Bug in update_goal_chain() logic in make 3.79.1

2001-05-08 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
I have attached a Makefile to the end of this message which illustrates this bug. Make should exit successfully when run on this Makefile, but it does not if you invoke it like this (assuming your load average is greater than zero): rm -f Makefile2 Makefile3 ; make -j 2 -l 0.0 The problem is

Re: Bug in update_goal_chain() logic in make 3.79.1

2001-05-08 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pjl> That is, when the job is being placed on the waiting chain > pjl> because the load is too high, start_job_command() is never > pjl> called. > > That's not true, though: you didn't examine what happens to those jobs > _after_ they get put o