Re: Make losing jobserver tokens on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:56:37 +0100
> From: Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie@oracle.com>
> 
> > I am not aware of any issues like this.  However, I recommend that you
> > try using the Visual Studio build of GNU make and see if that works
> > better.  I'm not very familiar with the Cygwin version of GNU make;
> > it's not maintained by us but my understanding is that they've needed
> > to apply some patches (maybe this understanding is outdated though).
> I'd definitely like to try to use the official version! Is there some 
> pre-built binaries for these? I tried to look around but could not find 
> anything newer than 3.81 at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net (and I'm not 
> even sure if that's "official").

The latest MinGW build of Make can be found here:

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/

But please beware: this is a native Windows port, so if you need to
run complex Makefile's that assume a Posix shell, I don't recommend
using that port, as its support for a Posix shell is somewhat limited.
In any case, you'd need to have a sh.exe somewhere on Path to run
recipes that assume a Posix shell, otherwise that port of Make will
call cmd.exe as the shell.

I'm quite sure Cygwin has its own official build, so maybe you should
try that first.