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On 6/23/10 6:05 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote:
> 
> On Jun 23, 2010, at 4:40 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> No, I have not tweaked my fink, And it only happens when building this  
> newer apt version.
> 
> 
> Package manager version: 0.29.99.cvs
> Distribution version: selfupdate-cvs Tue Jun 22 22:53:16 2010, 10.5,  
> powerpc
> 
> 
> - Koen.
> 
>

If you're running a HEAD fink the parallel build option might well be
set (it's out in the wild as of 0.29.11, too).  Check /sw/etc/fink.conf
for a MaxBuildJobs field.

- -- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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