Re: Broken gmake in pkgsrc-2016Q2

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:03:39PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> does anyone else see semi-regular hangs during builds with recent gmake
> versions? Both on NetBSD 7.0 i386 and amd64, my bulk builds keep hanging
> because gmake doesn't seem to reap its zombie children and continue with
> the build...

I have seen a hang in mame once, where nothing happened for hours (and
no, it was not the linking step). Stopping and starting the build
fixed that, so perhaps that was one occurrence of the problem you described.
 Thomas