Re: CVS make showed 'INTERNAL: reap_children' error

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Art Haas" <address@hidden> writes:

  ah> The current CVS make produced the fatal error in the job.c file
  ah> this morning while the 'make install' process of installing the
  ah> latest GCC build was happening. The install failed during the
  ah> installation of the libstdc++ libraries and headers. A 'cvs log'
  ah> and 'cvs diff' indicates this error message has just been added to
  ah> job.c.

Aha!  Good.  I added that to catch a problem with parallelism, but I
couldn't figure out how to reproduce the problem in a test case.  I'll
investigate GCC's build and see if I can figure out why it's happening.

Did you run make with -j, or just plain "make install"?

  ah> Also, 'make' seems to be using much more memory than the 3.80
  ah> version.  I can run 'top' and see make using 70+ Megs of memory
  ah> when a GCC build is running, and in addition executing 'make
  ah> install' on a completed GCC build takes a long time to actually
  ah> begin installing things, where the older 'make' binary begins the
  ah> installation process very quickly. I'm running on
  ah> i586-pc-linux-gnu using Debian unstable, so the system make
  ah> installed as /usr/bin/make is Debian's 3.80-9 package.

OK, I'll take a look at valgrind or similar.

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