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

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Daniel Macks
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