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On 7/5/2012 7:10 PM, Andy Ruff wrote:
> We've just upgraded from XP to Windows 7 and now our build system is
> failing when running make 2.81 from cygwin to compile and link our C++
> libraries.
>
> We parallel build across 6 of the 8 cores available on our development
> machines (using -j 6) and have had no issues with XP.
>
> Now, as soon as we upgraded to Windows 7, we are randomly getting
> errors like this:
>
>    make[3]: *** [tmodel/CMakeFiles/tmodel.dir/test.cpp.obj] Error 126
>    make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>    make[2]: *** [tmodel/CMakeFiles/tmodel.dir/all] Error 2
>    make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>    make: *** [release] Error 2
>
> Just restarting the make command again will successfully continue
> where it stopped, until it randomly fails with this error again.
>
> It looks to me like make is getting into some kind of contention issue
> with the target .obj files during the parallel build.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this issue and more importantly has anyone
> figured out how to fix this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andy
>

is "make -j 1" able to finish the job ?

I suspect your new antivirus have more issues with W7 than XP


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