On 09.11.2016 19:55, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 19:29 +0200, Jaak Ristioja wrote: >> GNU Make seems to randomly crash on an Raspberry Pi 2 with >> >> INTERNAL: Exiting with 2 jobserver tokens available; should be 5! >> >> or similar when emerging Gentoo Linux packages using multiple jobs >> (e.g. -j5). The kernel log then has lines like >> >> Segmentation fault occurred at (nil) in >> /usr/bin/gmake[make:23312] >> uid/euid:250/250 gid/egid:250/250, parent /bin/bash[sh:23311] >> uid/euid:250/250 gid/egid:250/250 > > Internal errors don't dump core in GNU make. > > I think what is happening is that GNU make is crashing, and that's > causing it to lose jobserver tokens (if an instance of GNU make owns an > extra token and crashes, then no one is available to release that token > again and you'll get an error about mismatched numbers of tokens at the > end of the build). > > In other words, cause and effect here are backwards. You'll need to > figure out why GNU make is throwing a segfault (is there a core file > you can examine for example): fixing that will likely solve the token > count issue. > >> Is this some known GNU Make bug on ARM? > > I'm not aware of any such bug on ARM. > > It would be helpful if you mentioned which version of GNU make you're > using.
# make --version GNU Make 4.2.1 Built for armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi But this also happened with 4.1 and 4.2. J _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
