Re: make[1]: *** wait: No child processes during make -j8 check

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

On 01/16/2017 05:37 PM, Martin Sebor wrote:
> I've run into this failure during make check in the past with
> a very large make -j value (such as -j128), but today I've had
> two consecutive make check runs fail with -j12 and -j8 on my 8
> core laptop with no much else going on.  The last thing running
> was the go test suite.  Has something changed recently that
> could be behind it?  (My user process limit is 62863.)
What version of make are you using?  There was a bug where make could 
lose track of children a while back.  Ask Patsy -- she may remember the 
RHEL BZ and from that we can probably extract the version #s that were 
affected and see if they match the version you're running.

jeff