Re: wait: No children. Stop.- Waiting for unfinished jobs - wait: No children. Stop

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Tobias Contreras" <address@hidden> writes:

  tc> What circumstances would it randomly display using the -j 
  tc> using 3.79

  tc> make: *** wait: No children.  Stop.
  tc> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  tc> make: *** wait: No children.  Stop. 

Sounds like make's jobserver lost one of the tokens or something.  It's
hard to say.

What operating system are you using?

  tc> Ps thank you for your help on my previous question "Multiple
  tc> invocations of GnuMake" perhaps I will upgrade to 3.80

You should upgrade to the latest version, 3.81.  There are a number of
known, fairly serious bugs in 3.80.

So far 3.81 (released over 3 months ago) seems to be much more stable.

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