On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 11:26 -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote: > I think this is a known limitation, that the job server is not > implemented on certain platforms. I googled a bit, and it seemed > like it has something to do with having or not having named pipes. > Perhaps some of the gnu make folks could elaborate on this issue.
Make jobserver doesn't use named pipes, at least not on POSIX systems. It does, however, require fully capable POSIX pipes, in particular ones that are inherited by/shared across multiple processes and which can be read from and written to by multiple processes simultaneously. Not knowing anything about Windows that's about all I can say, except that I _thought_ that there was at least one of the Windows implementations of GNU make that fully supported parallel builds. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
