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Re: CVS make showed 'INTERNAL: reap_children' error
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Paul D. Smith |
Subject: |
Re: CVS make showed 'INTERNAL: reap_children' error |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:18:59 -0400 |
%% "Art Haas" <address@hidden> writes:
ah> Also, 'make' seems to be using much more memory than the 3.80
ah> version. I can run 'top' and see make using 70+ Megs of memory
ah> when a GCC build is running, and in addition executing 'make
ah> install' on a completed GCC build takes a long time to actually
ah> begin installing things, where the older 'make' binary begins the
ah> installation process very quickly. I'm running on
ah> i586-pc-linux-gnu using Debian unstable, so the system make
ah> installed as /usr/bin/make is Debian's 3.80-9 package.
I've just committed a fix to CVS for this problem. Make should once
again be as fast as it was before (or at least not noticeably slower)
and it shouldn't use significantly more memory than it used to.
I'm still looking at how to fix the other problem you had (the internal
error).
Cheers!
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