Re: GMAKE 3.81 vs GMAKE 4.2

[Tony Theodore]

> On 28 Sep 2019, at 16:21, nikhil jain <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Do you mean to not use -j ?
> 
> That means a single rule execution at a time. It takes 2 hours to build.
> With -j4 it takes 1 hour.
> 
> I have -j kind of unlimited. So it usually takes around just 5 minutes to
> build. Less than that sometimes.

Does the error occur if you set a large number of jobs like -j 64, or use the
--load-average (-l) flag as well?

> What exactly is the bug ? And what is the fix in 4.2 ?

Can you narrow it down? Does it always fail at the same targets? Is it a 
hand-written
Makefile or generated from automake/cmake? Does it succeed with subsequent 
invocations
of make?

Cheers,

Tony