X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4EE8E7B6.9030704@cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:15:18 -0500 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "Bad address" error while building cygwin with make -j2 References: <4EE8E58C.3000904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EE8E58C.3000904@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 12/14/2011 1:06 PM, marco atzeri wrote: > On 12/14/2011 4:22 PM, Heiko Elger wrote: > >> make: *** read jobs pipe: Bad address. Stop. >> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... >> make: INTERNAL: Exiting with 1 jobserver tokens available; should be 2! > > I saw the same issue building another program on W7/64 > > I noticed that it happens on very high loaded machine so I doubt it > will be easily reproducible. Could this be the same Program Compatibility Assistant problem that was discussed in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-12/msg00058.html ? If so, there might be improvement in recent snapshots as a result of the following change: 2011-12-07 Corinna Vinschen * spawn.cc (child_info_spawn::worker): Add CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB to all spawned processes. Explain why. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple