Re: Regression on Cygwin: Problems with parallel make in 4.4

[Ken Brown]

I'm returning to this thread because a surprising thing happened.  I 
decided to try to debug the fifo problem I reported at the beginning of 
the thread (a hang building TeX Live on Cygwin when the jobserver used a 
fifo).  So I installed make 4.4.1 built with fifos enabled (by setting 
CPPFLAGS=-DJOBSERVER_USE_FIFO=1).  And now I can no longer reproduce the 
hang.

The only explanation I can think of is that commit 8b8cc3a825, which was 
intended to fix a pipe problem, also fixed the fifo problem.  Is that 
plausible?  Or does that commit only affect the behavior of make in the 
pipe case?

Ken