Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!ames!fxgrp!news From: grady@fxgrp.fx.com (Steven Grady) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Subject: gnumake 3.56 "-j" problem Message-ID: <1989Sep29.222350.13089@fxgrp.fx.com> Date: 29 Sep 89 22:23:50 GMT Reply-To: grady@fxgrp.fx.com (Steven Grady) Distribution: gnu Organization: FXDevelopment, Mountain View, CA Lines: 30 Using multiple jobs doesn't work in 3.56. I haven't been able to track it down completely (I gave up after about 2 hours), but it looks like remake_file() is calling execute_file_commands(), then assigns file->command_state = cs_finished, even though the job might be running in parallel and is therefore not finished. Or maybe it's that notice_finished_file() does not set file->update_status. Or both? Anyway, here's an example Makefile: a: b c @echo a done b: @echo doing b c: @echo doing c Here's the output: % gnumake -j2 gnumake: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... doing b % (This occurs on a sun3, sun4, and pc/rt.) Steven ...!ucbvax!grady grady@postgres.berkeley.edu "I hate snakes! I hate 'em!!" "C'mon! Show a little backbone, will ya?"