Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Improved parallel make support

On lör, 2010-11-13 at 20:07 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On lör, 2010-11-13 at 12:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > > On lör, 2010-11-13 at 11:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> It looks like all the unhappy critters are getting the same "virtual
> > >> memory exhausted" error.  I wonder whether they are all using make
> > >> 3.80 ...
> > 
> > > It turns out that there is an unrelated bug in 3.80 that some Linux
> > > distributions have patched around.  3.81 or 3.82 are OK.
> > 
> > So what do you mean by "unrelated bug"?  Can we work around it?
> 
> The information is fuzzy, but the problem has been reported around the
> internet, and it appears to be related to the foreach function.  I think
> I have an idea how to work around it, but I'll need some time.

Well, it looks like $(eval) is pretty broken in 3.80, so either we
require 3.81 or we abandon this line of thought.