Deadlock in build process? (make -j used) [SOLVED}

[U.Mutlu]

It seems this was caused by not having enough free-space on /tmp.
Increasing it to 3GB solved the problem.
Btw, my /tmp is a ramdisk, ie. tmpfs.


U.Mutlu wrote on 06/16/2018 09:20 AM:
> Not sure if the following is just a coincidence, but happened lately
> each of the two times I started the build process (make -j8) without
> previously giving the --disable-bootstrap parameter to the configure command:
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> ^C
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> It fills up /tmp and aborts with error and leaves /tmp full with countless
> temporary cc* files.
> Since my /tmp is mounted and is limited to just 1.1GB, here I did Ctrl-C.
> Btw, --enable-link-mutex was/is in effect.