Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/gmake

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 08:20:16PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 12:21:46PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > Module Name:        pkgsrc
> > Committed By:       joerg
> > Date:               Tue Sep  6 12:21:46 UTC 2016
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> >     pkgsrc/devel/gmake: Makefile
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > Disable use of new pselect code. At least on NetBSD 7 bulk builds, it
> > is often resulting in hanging builds by gmake not wait(3)ing for its
> > children and issues new jobs. Bump revision.
> 
> Hm, that made it worse for me.
> 
> I rarely saw the hanging jobs, but my latest build had new breakage in
> gcc5 and libreoffice due to gmake.

Yeah, it seems like the new gmake code is more or less completely
broken. The errors I see suggest that random file descriptors are closed
and reused. As I said, we should really revert to a working version.

Joerg