Martin Costabel <costa...@wanadoo.fr> said: > Koen van der Drift wrote: > [] >> make[262]: Makefile:11: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable >> make[262]: vfork: Resource temporarily unavailable >> make[261]: *** [dirs] Error 2 > > The [262] tells you that there are 262 levels of "make" running. Either > there is an infinite loop (but then this should happen to others, too), > or it is a question of parallel make running wild. Do you somehow have > your fink tweaked so that it runs "make -j" without a finite (small) > number of instances given, that is, not "make -j4" or something? This > has been seen on google as causing such a runaway vforking, because make > then spawns as many instances of itself as it can. > > I haven't followed the recent discussion about parallel makes, but I > seem to dimly remember that some code was added to fink that runs "make > -jn" with a value for "n" that is determined from the machine itself. If > such code is in your version of fink, then this could be a source of the > error if it doesn't work as intended.
...or if it does work as intended but the specific package isn't compatible with it (wouldn't be the first such). The default -j code also allows overriding by a .info field. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel