cygwin 1.7.0-28: Broken pipe signal broken?

[Christian Franke]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Christopher Faylor on 8/20/2008 10:07 AM:
>   
>>> Unfortunately, this makes things worse: bash now exits silently on
>>> $(...) commands, so 'bash --login' fails.
>>>       
>> I think this is fixed now.  I spent a lot of time trying to get this
>> to work exactly like linux but Windows thwarted me.  It should now, at
>> least, behave like 1.5.*.
>>     
>
>   

With cygwin 1.7.0-29 and 20080822, SIGPIPE and write now behave like 1.5.*.

But ...

> Not quite.  Now, with cygwin 1.7.0-29, parallel make is breaking, when
> trying to use a fifo on fd3 for communication between the parallel
> processes.  This is making it hard to package anything, since cygport
> defaults to 'make -j2':
>
> $ cygcheck -c cygwin
> ...
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version        Status
> cygwin               1.7.0-29       OK
> $ cd coreutils
> $ make -j2
> ...
> gcc -std=gnu99  -gdwarf-2 -Wall  -Wl,--as-needed -o arch.exe uname.o
> uname-arch.o ../lib/libcoreutils.a /usr/local/lib/libintl.dll.a -liconv
> - -L/usr/local/lib ../lib/libcoreutils.a
> gcc -std=gnu99  -gdwarf-2 -Wall  -Wl,--as-needed -o setuidgid.exe
> setuidgid.o ../lib/libcoreutils.a /usr/local/lib/libintl.dll.a -liconv
> - -L/usr/local/lib ../lib/libcoreutils.a
> make[3]: *** write jobserver: No error.  Stop.
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[3]: *** write jobserver: No error.  Stop.
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/eblake/coreutils/src'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/eblake/coreutils'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> make: INTERNAL: Exiting with 3 jobserver tokens available; should be 2!
>
>   

... I could also reproduce this problem.


Christian


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