Re: make 3.81 and MS-DOS paths (e.g. C: or drive letter paths)

[Bill Hoffman]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 11:26 -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> > I think this is a known limitation, that the job server is not 
> > implemented on certain platforms.   I googled a bit, and it seemed
> > like  it has something to do with having or not having named pipes.
> > Perhaps  some of the gnu make folks could elaborate on this issue.
>
> Make jobserver doesn't use named pipes, at least not on POSIX systems.
> It does, however, require fully capable POSIX pipes, in particular ones
> that are inherited by/shared across multiple processes and which can be
> read from and written to by multiple processes simultaneously.
I have no idea about how it is implemented, I just found that in a 
comment from a google search.
> Not knowing anything about Windows that's about all I can say, except
> that I _thought_ that there was at least one of the Windows
> implementations of GNU make that fully supported parallel builds.
I have tried the mingw make and the native build windows make, and no 
job server.  -j N works, but not if you do recursive make.  Msys make 
has the command line option issue.  Is there another make to try on Windows?

-Bill