Re: Got a SIGCHLD

[Maciej Walezak]

Ok I know the cause of trouble already. I had macros
ARCH=$(shell uname)
DIR=$(ARCH)/$(STH)

and I used $(DIR) several hundreds times which caused shell to be executed so 
many times.
Using simply expanded variables (:=) solved the problem.

Thanks anyway.

> %% Maciej Walezak <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   mw> When I run gmake with -d flag a see several dozens of the
>   mw> following lines:
> 
>   mw> Child access: user 1050 (real 1050), group 1001 (real 1001)
>   mw> Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
> 
>   mw> After about 200 such lines gmake starts doing its normal job
>   mw> i.e. chceking dpendencies and so on.  In case of one big makefile
>   mw> (with very long lists of files as targets or dependencies) the
>   mw> number of those lines goes into thousands and gmake does not
>   mw> starts normal job after reasonable time.
> 
> Hm.  These message mean that make is running a command and waiting for
> it to be done.  Don't you see any other information about what commands
> make is starting when you run with -d?  What commands are they?
> 
> 
> One thing: are you using the automated dependency tracking solution
> described in the GNU make manual (and other places), which includes the
> .d files for each source file and provides a rule for building them?  If
> so, maybe these are the dependency files being built before make can
> start processing the normal rules.
> 
> If this is the case, see the "advanced automated dependency tracking"
> method described in a paper on my web page below.
> 
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