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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: make-4.0-1 (x86 and x86_64)


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:59:31AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote:
>On 2013-10-15 15:47, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 09:12:48AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote:
>>> make -O -f m.mk
>>>
>>> Produces this output:
>>> fcntl(): Invalid argument
>>> touch all
>>>
>>> I've tried this using both the 32-bit version and 64-bit version of
>>> cygwin 1.7.25 with the same results.
>>
>> I can't test this right now but it will probably work better if you
>> redirect stdout/stderr to a file.  That's what the make testsuite does.
>> make apparently expects to be able to get a lock on console/tty which
>> isn't currently supported on Cygwin.
>
>I can confirm that piping the output to a file makes the error message 
>go away.

Corinna and I are discussing how to implement the missing functionality
in Cygwin.  I probably should have known that Linux allowed you to lock
ttys this way but it sure never occurred to me to implement it in Cygwin.

cgf

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