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Make Parallel Jobs
- From: Bill Harding <bharding at amazeent dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:37:43 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Make Parallel Jobs
All,
I have been combating a make bug for several months, and
after many hours of web searching, I am finally breaking
down to see if anyone might possibly have some idea about
what I can do about this bug. The issue is that I am
building assets for a video game using the following command:
make -C Anims --no-print-directory -r -f Anims.mk all &&
make -C BGs --no-print-directory -r -f BGs.mk all
However, at seemingly random intervals throughout the build
process (usually about 4-5 times per build), I get the
following error:
make[1]: *** read jobs pipe: No such file or directory. Stop.
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
ShIdleA.ica
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [build] Error 2
Error executing c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe.
After I get this error, I can invoke the build again and
it will start building files again where it had left off,
indicating that there was no problem with the asset itself.
The most perplexing part of this "jobs pipe error" is that
I am not using jobs. Even if I explicitly pass make a -j1
flag, it still gives me this error quite often, and
cumulatively this ends up being an enormous time cost.
Do you have any idea why I would be getting this error
when I am not using jobs, and more importantly, if there
is anything that could be done to fix it?
Thanks!
Bill Harding
Lead Developer
Amaze Entertainment
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