On Mon, 2022-02-21 at 15:56 +0100, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> I'm trying to built it from source right now (and it does not seem
> complicated), but even so, an official binary makes sure I'm not
> introducing any issues from my local build environment.
There is no such thing as an "official
> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:56:37 +0100
> From: Magnus Ihse Bursie
>
> > I am not aware of any issues like this. However, I recommend that you
> > try using the Visual Studio build of GNU make and see if that works
> > better. I'm not very familiar with the Cygwin version of GNU make;
> > it's
>> I believe that the goal of the Cygwin port is to implement a POSIX
>> layer on top of Windows, so I'm assuming that when you compile GNU
>> make with Cygwin it uses the POSIX implementation of the jobserver.
>> This implementation relies on certain POSIX behaviors of pipes and
>> signals and
On 2022-02-18 16:04, Paul Smith wrote:
On Fri, 2022-02-18 at 10:18 +0100, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
make[2]: INTERNAL: Exiting with 1 jobserver tokens available; should
be 24!
This effectively turns the highly parallelized builds into
single-threaded builds, and is absolutely detrimental for
> From: Paul Smith
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 10:04:08 -0500
>
> I am not aware of any issues like this. However, I recommend that you
> try using the Visual Studio build of GNU make and see if that works
> better. I'm not very familiar with the Cygwin version of GNU make;
> it's not maintained
On Fri, 2022-02-18 at 10:18 +0100, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> make[2]: INTERNAL: Exiting with 1 jobserver tokens available; should
> be 24!
>
> This effectively turns the highly parallelized builds into
> single-threaded builds, and is absolutely detrimental for
> performance. :-( On the flip
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 10:18:24 +0100
> From: Magnus Ihse Bursie
>
> So, my first question is: Is this a known problem? Are there any
> workarounds/fixes to get around it?
Not that I know of, no. Search of the bug database also doesn't seem
to bring up anything like that.
> Otherwise: Any
Hi,
I'm working for Oracle on the OpenJDK build team. We're using GNU make
exclusively to build the JDK on all supported platforms. For Windows, we
(typically) use the Cygwin version.
We have had a long-standing issue with make losing jobserver tokens on
Windows. Most runs end
