[tlbuild] Problems with parallel make

[Ken Brown]

On 2/12/2023 6:48 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Karl Berry wrote:
>>      1. 'make -j13 world' hangs during the 'make install-strip' step, with
>>      several 'make' instances still running.
>>
>> What are they doing? Can you tell from the processes that are running
>> when it hangs?
>>
>> I can't think of what would be different here than in previous years.
> 
> Are you using the same version of 'make' as last year?

No, I'm using 4.4, and last year I used 4.3.

> At least in recent GNU make versions, there are problems with parallelism
> on Cygwin. Reported at
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2023-01/msg00134.html .
> I don't know about older versions of GNU make, though.

Thanks for the pointer.  I'll see if going back to 4.3 fixes the problem.

Ken