Re: gmake hanging on Solaris 2.7

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Regarding Re: gmake hanging on Solaris 2.7; you wrote:

  th> We are not (yet) using parallel builds.  The commandline being
  th> used is simply "gmake -k" or "gmake -k clean" at the time gmake is
  th> hanging.

Very surprising.  I've not had any reports of hangs, but even so I'm
really surprised that there would be a hang when running serially.

  th> I built a debug version and started using that in our nightly
  th> build last night.  Of course, it didn't hang.  So, for now, I'll
  th> just continue running the debug one until it does hang, or we'll
  th> just use it if it never does.  I hate leaving mysteries unsolved
  th> though.

There's an issue in make that _could_, maybe, in theory, cause a hang,
but I've never experienced it in practice (I have some code to fix it
but it's not in 3.79.1).

Also, I thought from looking at the code that it would only happen
during parallel builds.

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