make -jN loops on Windows

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

I tried make -j2, which locked up.  "sh validate" used -j but I'm not sure with what N.

It's tantalising if it worked for you!  And it worked fine on my old Win7 laptop.  Where did you get your mingw/msys installation from?  I got mine from http://www.mingw.org/, using the download installer "Mingw-get-setup.exe".

I have also just unravelled another bizarre failure, which I'll describe in a separate email.  Sadly resolving the latter does not fix the make -j2 problem.

Simon

From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Niklas Larsson
Sent: 27 August 2013 23:56
To: Kyle Van Berendonck
Cc: ghc-devs at haskell.org
Subject: Re: make -jN loops on Windows

Hi!

Are you using make -j with or without number of jobs? I tried with make -j4 on my Windows 8 machine and it worked well.

Niklas

2013/8/27 Kyle Van Berendonck <kvanberendonck at gmail.com<mailto:kvanberendonck at gmail.com>>
Hi Simon,

I think this is a MinGW bug. If we're talking about the same bug (lockup, no console output, task manager shows cpu but it doesn't produce files, etc) I get it when building other projects with -j too and I don't think its GHC's fault.

Regards,

Kyle Van Berendonck

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