[tlbuild] TeX Live builds -- a first summary

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Ken Brown wrote:

> ....  By the way, cygwin-1.7 is still in beta testing, but I 
> thought I should use it since it will probably be released long before 
> TL2009.  The current version is known to have a problem with file locking 
> that could conceivably cause parallel make to fail.  Could that explain the 
> failure?  If so, is there a way to disable parallel make for testing 
> purposes?

Hi Ken,

there is no parallel build unless explicitly requested via 'make -j N'. 
Moreover, the same probles occured for cygwin 1.5, which shouldn't have any
file locking problems.

Regards
Peter