Anyone have luck with gnu make in a solaris 8 container?

Question

global zone running solaris 10 05/08 (480 hw). got a solaris 8 zone up (flash arcive of one of our solaris 8 systems, NICE!!!). got most items working, except i have probs with gmake (gnu make), any version. ive tried older-current, built from src, and binary packages. all have the same prob.
gmake: *** wait: Error 0. Stop.
gmake: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
truss (from inside the sol8 zone)
20050: llseek(0, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 952421
20050: _exit(0)
20049: Received signal #18, SIGCLD, in wait() [caught]
20049: siginfo: SIGCLD CLD_EXITED pid=20050 status=0x0000
20049: wait()
havent tried dtrace yet from the global zone. am i missing some type of privilege outside of the default ones? i can compile and build most open src items with the system make, however we have our own products we build with gnu make.

Answer 1

agreed. though in this solaris 8 zone, i have built openssh, openssl, openldap, mit krb5, sudo, various other gnu utils, and a few more open src projs and all seem to work just fine. test programs ran ok, and i connect via sshd (5.0p1+hpn). we are an isv, and i have had some of our folks run our prods through a bit and so far all those have been ok as well. we are going to run oracle in this env shortly as well as stress test with our prods.
it would be interesting to see what some of the sun folks have to say. with your change to job.c, i was able to run all the make checks, and have used gmake to build a few projects as well. i probably will see what gmake can do building gcc with -j4.
very nice find by the way. hope this does raise a few flags with sun as to why this change would be needed.
for sanity sake: unified diff (prob not formated correctly on this site, ARGH):
--- job.c.orig 2008-04-29 13:07:09.312266000 -0400
+++ job.c 2008-04-29 13:07:57.154445000 -0400
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@
else
pid = 0;
- if (pid < 0)
+ if (pid < 0 && errno != 0)
/* The wait*() failed miserably. Punt. */
pfatal_with_name ("wait");
Edited by: sid_sanders on Apr 29, 2008 10:08 AM