From:	George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Make.exe, error message: Descriptors exhausted
Date:	14 Jun 1998 08:01:53 GMT
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On Tue, 09 Jun 1998 10:33:35 +0200 in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Anders Undin
<anders DOT undin AT katrineholm DOT mail DOT telia DOT com> wrote:

: When I try to make the allegro library with the make program, I get this
: cryptic message: "Descriptors exhausted". And before that I got "Load
: error: No DOS memory". I downloaded version 3 of Allegro.  Please help
: me!

Please type "mem /c /p" from the DOS prompt from which you are trying
to run "Make", and post its output.  Are you running Make from a DOS
shell under Windows, or are you booting in DOS mode?  Please verify
that you are using GNU Make, from the djgpp distribution, and not some
other Make.  Type "gnumake --version" to find out.

Also please say when the "Descriptors exhausted" appeared -- had Make
already gone through some of the build process?  If so, you can rerun
Make and it will carry on where it left off.  IIRC there is a problem
(possibly only with some DPMI hosts) that means that when djgpp
programs are nested, the descriptors used by the child process are not
freed up when it exits -- they remain allocated until the parent also
exits.  Consequently, programs like Make or Bash that need to run a
lot of children can run out of descriptors in this way.  The only
solution is to rerun Make, or occasionally exit the Bash shell and
restart it.

I can't remember where I read this (it doesn't seem to be in the FAQ)
so take it with a pinch of salt.

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