Re: CVS make showed 'INTERNAL: reap_children' error

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 11:33:11AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% "Art Haas" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   ah> The current CVS make produced the fatal error in the job.c file
>   ah> this morning while the 'make install' process of installing the
>   ah> latest GCC build was happening. The install failed during the
>   ah> installation of the libstdc++ libraries and headers. A 'cvs log'
>   ah> and 'cvs diff' indicates this error message has just been added to
>   ah> job.c.
> 
> Aha!  Good.  I added that to catch a problem with parallelism, but I
> couldn't figure out how to reproduce the problem in a test case.  I'll
> investigate GCC's build and see if I can figure out why it's happening.

I've succeeded to reproduce this bug with "make -j1 mrproper" command
in the top of the kernel-2.6.11 source tree.

This is very fresh issue, caused by last commit in make cvs (2005-04-07).


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