Re: Parallel Jobs Bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:42:25 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 
>       * the code that generates that output is conditionally compiled
>         only if MAKE_JOBSERVERS is set, and that macro is set only if
>         the configure script detects a number of POSIX-like features in
>         your OS.  If you build using the default config.h.W32 etc. and
>         don't run configure, that macro is not set and that code does
>         not even exist in the program anywhere!

It probably just means that the OP is using the Cygwin port of Make.
Which, of course, doesn't explain this:

>       * If the code is compiled in, it's only invoked if there is a
>         jobserver pipe, and there is only a jobserver pipe if one of two
>         things is true: a -jN was passed where N>1 was passed to make on
>         the compile line, or the option --jobserver-fds (which is an
>         internal option passed by make to its submakes and should never
>         be given to make externally) was passed to make.