bugmake - Bugs: bug #33873, MAKEFLAGS=-jN gets lost on reexec

 
 

bug #33873: MAKEFLAGS=-jN gets lost on reexec

Submitter:  Petr Machata <pmachata>
Submitted:  Wed 27 Jul 2011 10:48:56 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Bug
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  psmith Open/Closed:  Closed
Component Version:  4.0 Operating System:  None
Fixed Release:  4.0 Triage Status:  Verified
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Sun 18 Sep 2011 11:45:03 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Fixed in CVS.  Thanks!

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
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Tue 13 Sep 2011 03:12:35 AM UTC, comment #1: 

This looks like the same issue as:
https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?107487

I can confirm the patch provided here also fixes that issue.

Allan McRae <allan>
Wed 27 Jul 2011 10:48:56 PM UTC, original submission:  

With CVS and attached Makefile, I'm getting no parallelism:


$ touch foo.c; MAKEFLAGS="-j4" ~/src/make.pm/make
touch Makefile
thing1 start r
thing1 end
thing2 start r
thing2 end


I tracked the problem down to the commit from 2009-06-09 17:36. The cause seems to be that when make is about to re-exec, it calls define_makeflags.  But at that time, the value of job_slots is 1 due to call to clean_jobserver around make.c:2046, and thus -j from MAKEFLAGS is tossed.

But even if it weren't, there's a special check in define_makeflags that disregards this value.  I thought that that's to prevent launching multiple sub-makes, but that isn't what happens when I comment the code out.  Perhaps it's only relevant when MAKE_JOBSERVER is not defined?  In my patch, I have it ifdefed out in a straightforward manner, but most probably that's not the right thing to do (although no test cases break...).

Petr Machata <pmachata>

 

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file #23706:  makeflags.patch added by pmachata (1KiB - text/x-patch)
file #23707:  Makefile added by pmachata (132B - application/octet-stream)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2011-09-18 psmith StatusNone Fixed
        Assigned toNone psmith
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Fixed ReleaseNone 4.0
        Triage StatusNone Verified
    2011-07-27 pmachata Attached File- Added makeflags.patch, #23706
        Attached File- Added Makefile, #23707

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