Re: gmake-4.2.90 regression (error message missing)

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2019-09-01 at 15:33 -0400, Dmitry Goncharov via Bug reports and
discussion for GNU make wrote:
> This patch executes posix_spawnp at configuration time and then
> disables posix_spawn if posix_spawn returns 0 on an attempt to exec a
> missing file.
> This solution won't work for cross compilation.

Thanks Dmitry.  I guessed at this issue during testing:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2019-08/msg00063.html

I have a different solution in mind that doesn't require using
configure tests and won't have issues with cross-compilation: I'm just
handling the 127 exit code and generating the appropriate error message
directly.