Re: V5R4 version of gmake from 5799PTL failing in recursion.

[Mike Amos <yl_mra@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

I have not. It is possible that it's an environmental issue. That's why 
I wanted to check with the community first. I generally avoid the two 
week loss of time proving to IBM it's their problem until I've checked 
other alternatives.

Mike

On 04/26/2011 03:21 PM, Mark S. Waterbury wrote:
> Hi, Mike:
>
> Did you open a problem (PMR) for this issue?
>
> (If no one reports this problem, it will never get fixed.)
>
> Mark
>
>  > On 4/26/2011 3:16 PM, Mike Amos wrote:
> > I just installed the V5R4 gmake on my V5R4 system and, now, when I call
> > gmake to recursively descend directories, it fails with
> >
> > FAILURE: spawnp() with errno = 3021
> > GMAKE[1]: vfork: The value specified for the argument is not correct.
> >
> > This did not happen with the V4R5 version of gmake which I replaced. I
> > check for, and did not find, an APAR for this error. Has anyone else
> > seen this problem? If so, did you find a resolution?
> >
> > I requested the GNU source from IBM and have not yet received a response.
> >
> > As a workaround, I installed the AIX version of GNU gmake in PASE. There
> > are two problems with this,
> > 1. I have to switch back and forth between the two different versions of
> > gamke for different steps in the build process.
> > 2. There is bound to come a situation when I'll have to have the
> > recursion capabilities in a QShell environment.
> >
> > Mike