Re: Broken GNU make

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

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:06:18PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 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.

Looks like FreeBSD is hitting issues as well, with the pselect code
showing issues like I see without it. I have now reverted gmake back to
4.1.

Joerg