Re: Broken GNU make

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 08:58:32PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 08:28:05PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > so the short story is the current version of GNU make seems to be
> > completely broken. With pselect based job server, it regularly hangs
> > waiting for children. Without pselect, using the old code, it fails with
> > random pipe corruption it seems... Shall we revert it?
> 
> What did upstream say about these problems?

I haven't reported the second one yet, I've rebooted the VM first and
I'm awaiting the next build to see if it was a spurious problem or not.
The pselect thing is https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49014 and has a me2
so far from Linux.

Joerg