On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 13:34 -0700, Tim Newsome wrote: > We do a lot of builds (as in double-digit servers building non-stop). > Sometimes, when a part of the build fails, make -j8 would die with: > make: INTERNAL: Exiting with 9 jobserver tokens available; should be > 8 > > With -j16 the error would be 17 instead of 16, etc. I think it's > simply an off-by-one error in cleanup code that is almost never run. > Attached is a patch that fixes it. We've been running with it for over > 5 days now and haven't noticed any problems.
I applied a change to fix this. I tried for a while but couldn't generate a repro case. Bummer. Thanks! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <psm...@gnu.org> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.net "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
