Re: maintainer mode parallel make issue

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 01:15:18AM CEST:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/18/2009 4:27 PM:
> > Tangential to this issue, I think XFile::lock should warn resp. fail
> > also when parallel non-GNU make is used and exposes a locking issue.
> 
> I agree; and the patch looks good to me.

Thanks.  Pushed to Autoconf, as part of the sync from Automake.

> At any rate, my original complaint about the locking failure on cygwin 1.7
> has had a patch applied upstream, although I have not yet had time to test
> it: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2009-q2/msg00038.html
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-04/msg00404.html

Cool.  I should take back what I said earlier about Cygwin; their
response to such bug reports is really nice.

Cheers,
Ralf