Re: Intermittent parallel make rebuild failures

[David Highley]

Paul,

Since yesterday was very hectic I decided to go back and re-run all my
testing for the intermittent parallel build failure. I have now
concluded that Red Hat 5.4 also does not work so the last know working
version was a 3.79-x version which came on Red Hat 3 Update 8. I did
retest the latest version 3.82 down loaded from savannah.gnu.org and it
also does not work. Let me know how I can further support getting this
issue fixed.

"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 version 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.
> 
> > 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 maintainer ship from
> Roland in 1996 (as best as I recall).
>