[openbeos] Re: Waif child found.

  • From: Oliver Tappe <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:36:44 +0200

Hi Adam,

On 2006-08-18 at 01:48:17 [+0200], Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > Oliver Tappe wrote:
> >   
[ ... ]
> >> This problem should now be fixed. The actual cause was jam not being able 
> >> to
> >> deal with a command invoking multiple sub-processes (AboutHaiku manages to
> >> create several sub-processes by piping several commands together).
> >>
> >> Adam, could you please confirm whether or not you can now build AboutHaiku 
> >> on
> >> Zeta with the original Jamfile, too?
> >>   
> >
> > Yep, it works fine now.  Thanks! :-)
> >
> And now it doesn't...  It's been broken again somewhere along the way.

So what exactly goes wrong (error-message) and where?

If jam finds a waif child, it shouldn't stop anymore, just issue a warning.

Have you actually built a new jam binary since my recent fix? What does a 
'jam -v' show?

cheers,
        Oliver

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