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Re: CVS make showed 'INTERNAL: reap_children' error


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: Re: CVS make showed 'INTERNAL: reap_children' error
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 14:38:23 -0400

I finally figured out exactly why this happens: if you have a recursive
variable that is exported and the value is a $(shell ...) function, then
you'll get this error (this error means that parallel builds would
eventually turn non-parallel as tokens are lost).

I'll be looking at it today I hope.

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