bash will probably work fine. On most Linux systems, bash is the *only*
"POSIX" shell anyway.
-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun
http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Bhatt, Milan C
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 3:44 PM
> To: 'Paul D. Smith'
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Recursive GMAKE with -j option
>
>
> I just figured out the issue I was having with doing recursive gmake and
> specifying the -jN option at the same time. I was using tcsh by setting
> $(SHELL) variable, and it seems tcsh isn't POSIX compliant. Linking that
> information with following entry within the gmake history document gave me
> the solution:
>
> >* A "job server" feature, suggested by Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> > On systems that support POSIX pipe(2) semantics, GNU make can now pass
> > -jN options to submakes rather than forcing them all to use -j1. The
> > top make and all its sub-make processes use a pipe to communicate with
> > each other to ensure that no more than N jobs are started across all
> > makes. To get the old behavior of -j back, you can configure make
> > with the --disable-job-server option.
>
> Because tcsh wasn't fully POSIX compliant, it could not properly
> establish a
> pipe for communication between the sub-make processes leading to gmake
> complaining that the "job sever" wasn't available.
>
> Now the question is which shell would be best to use? I'd
> preferrably like
> to use bash because of the additional features it has over sh, but I'm not
> too sure about how POSIX compliant it is.
>
> Thanks,
> Milan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul D. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 12:06 PM
> To: Bhatt, Milan C
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: Recursive GMAKE with -j option
>
>
> %% "Bhatt, Milan C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> bmc> I get the following message:
>
> bmc> warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make
> rule
>
> See the GNU make manual section on parallel builds and the section
> on error messages for a description of what this means.
>
> If that doesn't answer your questions, re-post with appropriate
> information: what version of GNU make you're using, what host/OS/version
> you're using it on, and show an example of the rule you use to invoke a
> sub-make.
>
> --
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> Scientist
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