%% "CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
cdg> As we suffer from this bug (?) occasionally, it would be good to
cdg> install 3.81, but I'd prefer to do this from an official release.
cdg> looking on ftp.gnu.org the latest I can find is 3.80. Is 3.81
cdg> imminent?
As imminent as anything ever is with Free Software.
You can try the latest release candidate:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.81rc2.tar.gz
if you like, to see if it helps with your problem.
cdg> What acutally causes this? Perhaps there is something else that
cdg> can fix it?
You can look here for info:
http://make.paulandlesley.org/jobserver.html
Look at the section "SA-non-RESTARTer?" I've had conversations with
knowledgeable people who claim that the POSIX guarantee for SA_RESTART
is not as ironclad as one would assume, and that technically Solaris is
not violating the letter of the spec, so...
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