Re: gmake hanging on Solaris 2.7

[Paul D. Smith]

%% address@hidden writes:

  th> I'm running into a problem with two gmake processes hanging
  th> (parent/child) on a Sun Sparc running Solaris 2.7 using gmake
  th> 3.79.1.

Can you provide other details; in particular, are you running with
parallel builds enabled?  What commandline did you use to invoke make?
Is this reproducible?

Also, what compiler did you use to build make?  Do you have any extra
patches, etc. applied beyond basic 3.79.1?

  th> I'm just starting to debug this now, I'm wondering if anyone has
  th> seen this or has some hints for me.  Here's the stack traces:

These aren't as useful as they could be, since they don't have
linenumbers, etc. and I don't have access to the same binaries and
systems you're using.

Can you attach to these using GDB and/or to versions of GNU make with
debugging compiled in, and get stack traces there containing line
numbers, etc.?

I suppose one thing you might try, based on this stack trace, is editing
config.h and changing this line:

  /* #undef vfork */

to this:

  #define vfork fork

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