Re: Intermittent parallel make rebuild failures

[David Highley]

"Paul Smith wrote:"
> 
> On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 11:07 -0700, David Highley wrote:
> > The latest version of Fedora 13 does not have a 3.82 verion of make so
> > the only way to test would be to build from source which I can do. It
> > may take me a while since were pretty busy right now.
> 
> Building make from source is pretty trivial: only one binary (plus
> docs).  You can just run it out of the build directory if you want, no
> need to install.
> 
> But no huge rush: I'm underwater at work for at least the next few weeks
> as well.

OK, I down loaded and did a build of 3.82 on both Red Hat 5.1 and Red
Hat 5.4 and it fails in the same way as 3.81-1 and 3.81-2. So 3.82 seems
to regress for this issue.

> 
> > Do we know if anyone is working on a newer update for Cygwin?
> 
> I don't; maybe a message to address@hidden would help?  I really don't
> follow this at all (I know, lucky, right? :-)) but my vague impression
> is that people are moving away from cygwin and towards mingw.
> 
> > Paul has it really only been 15 years. I though our discussions went
> > back to 1995 or so when you were working a Bay Networks.
> 
> Well, I've been using GNU make heavily since 1988 or 1989 so it's likely
> we did have those discussions.  But I took over maintainership from
> Roland in 1996 (as best as I recall).