Re: make: Reaping losing child problem.

[xiangxiang . zhou]

On Friday, September 25, 1998 at 3:00:00 PM UTC+8, pares...@my-dejanews.com 
wrote:
> We are using make version 3.70 and 3.76.1 of make.
> We use the vpath feature.
> 
> On Solaris 2.5.1, make 3.70 works fine.
> We moved all our source files and scripts to Solaris 2.6 and installed
> both 3.70 and 3.76.1 versions of make on this machine.
> 
> On this machine, we get make failure as follows:
> 
> If the souce file (*.C) is in the current directory, make is successful.
> But if the source file is in a different directory, make fails with the
> foll. message (with the -d flag turned on):
> 
>    Reaping winning child 0x0005c7c0 PID 10049
>    Child access: user 20327 (real 20327), group 2021 (real 2021)
>    Live child 0x0005c7c0 PID 10051
>    Reaping losing child 0x0005c7c0 PID 10051
>    make: *** [/dvlp/src/cmd/collect.o] Error 1
>    Removing child 0x0005c7c0 PID 10051 from chain.
> 
> 
> Here, /dvlp/src/cmd is NOT the current working directory.
> The object file (collect.o) is compiled successfully, so we know that
> CC (compile) was successful.
> 
> Can someone tell us why make is failing?
> If possible, please reply to:  paresh.shah@convergys.com
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
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I saw this problem as well.
You can remove the previous installed python library in `/usr/local/lib` or 
`/usr/lib`, and try again.
This works for me, although I don't know the reason.