"Bad address" error while building cygwin with make -j2

[Chris Sutcliffe]

On 15 December 2011 02:16, Heiko Elger wrote:
> I tested it - still same issue!
>
> *** snip snp snip ******
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 PCFX061 1.7.10s(0.255/5/3) 20111214 15:56:36 i686 Cygwin
>
> $ make -j2

<snip>

> make: *** read jobs pipe: Bad address.  Stop.
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make: INTERNAL: Exiting with 1 jobserver tokens available; should be 2!

I'm not sure if the 20111214 snapshot was supposed to address this
issue, but I'm continuing to experience the issue as well:

csutclif@bmotec3017201lt:[~] $ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 BMOTEC3017201LT 1.7.10s(0.255/5/3) 20111214 15:56:36 i686 Cygwin

csutclif@bmotec3017201lt:[/usr/src/vim] $ make -j4
Starting make in the src directory.
If there are problems, cd to the src directory and run make there
cd src && make first
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/vim/src'
gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H     -g -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1       -o objects/buffer.o buffer.c
gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H     -g -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1       -o objects/blowfish.o blowfish.c
gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H     -g -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1       -o objects/charset.o charset.c
gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H     -g -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1       -o objects/diff.o diff.c
make[1]: *** read jobs pipe: Bad address.  Stop.
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vim/src'
Makefile:26: recipe for target `first' failed
make: *** [first] Error 2
make: INTERNAL: Exiting with 3 jobserver tokens available; should be 4!

Chris

-- 
Chris Sutcliffe
http://emergedesktop.org
http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d

--
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