Another observation that seems to point at SIGCHLD handling being the issue
is the failure seen in building texinfo under fink make on 10.11
make[5]: *** read jobs pipe: No such file or directory. Stop.
make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
during the InfoTest. Note that in the make 4
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Jack Howarth
wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Jack Howarth
> wrote:
>
>> Looking a bit more at the failures of make 4.x under fink, I noticed that
>> fink uses the perl system() call and MacPorts uses tcl's system() call as
>> well. However the perl docu
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Jack Howarth
wrote:
> Looking a bit more at the failures of make 4.x under fink, I noticed that
> fink uses the perl system() call and MacPorts uses tcl's system() call as
> well. However the perl documentation has the following comment...
>
> Since system does a
Looking a bit more at the failures of make 4.x under fink, I noticed that
fink uses the perl system() call and MacPorts uses tcl's system() call as
well. However the perl documentation has the following comment...
Since system does a fork and wait it may affect a SIGCHLD handler. See
perlipc for d
