Re: Issues with parallel build on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 01:47:50 -0800 (PST)
> From: Sasikala R <address@hidden>
> Cc: 
> 
> Has anyone come across the following kind of error?
> 
> gmake.EXE[2]: *** [4.obj]    4522468

Not that I recall.

> I don't get this error when we do serial build (with one thread).  This
> happens only when we build in parallel mode.  And this failure occurs only
> on Windows.
> 
> Example:
> 
> Directory structure:
> 
> xyz  ____ a
>     |
>     |____ b
>     |
>     |____ c
> 
> a --> 1.obj, 2.obj
> b --> 3.obj, 4.obj, 5.obj
> c --> 6.obj, 7.obj, 8.obj
> 
> cd xyz
> gmake -j 3  --> where 2 processors are available.  1.5 times the number of
> processors.

Can you show a minimal Makefile with which you are able to reproduce
this problem?  Also, does the problem happen always, or just sometimes?