Re: Posix build on Windows: parallel `make' broken

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 06:07:06 +0200
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>, 
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > GNU Make 3.81 that is part of the official MSYS distribution does not
> > support parallel execution.  That is what you are experiencing.
> [...]
> > This describes the version of Make I use, which identifies itself as
> > 3.82.90, and it does support parallel jobs.
> 
>   address@hidden /c/devel/emacs/repo/msys
>   $ make -v
>   GNU Make 3.82.90
>   Built for i686-pc-msys
>   Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>   License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>   This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>   There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> 
> and "make -j N" also causes hangups here.

Did you also upgrade your MSYS lately?  Or did you never tried the
parallel build before?

> Another oddity: in place installation (setting
> --prefix=c:/Devel/emacs/repo/msys where my source tree is) creates an
> empty c/ dir along with the populated libexec/, share/ and var/.

Can you figure out which command run as part of "make install" does
that?  (Try "Ctrl-S" from time to time, as the installation runs, and
look when it is created.)