Bug#296583: "make -j9999" hangs

2005-10-28 Thread Daniel van Eeden
If I run this command in a directory w/o makefile it keeps giving errors like it should until 4098. The command: for (( i=4000; i<; i=i+1 )); do echo $i; make -j$i; done The last lines: 4095 make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. 4096 make: *** No targets specified and n

Bug#296583: "make -j9999" hangs

2005-10-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
tags 296583 + moreinfo unreproducible severity 296583 minor thanks Hi, Are you sure it is make which is hanging, and not your box? I tried a simple makefile which imposes no load on the machine, and tried make -j, and it just worked.I have a feeling that you might have just fork b

Bug#296583: "make -j9999" hangs

2005-02-23 Thread Daniel van Eeden
Package: make Version: 3.80-9 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To test extreme parallel builds the make -j command should work. If it is not posible to get that to work then it should print an error. Either way it should work or fail, not hang. - -- System Infor