[gentoo-alt] multilib / multijob / parallel build problem

[Alan]

I'm getting this error when trying to emerge freetype, yet I have 
MAKEOPTS="-j1" in my make.conf so I don't see why we're trying parallel 
jobs.

I've googled and seen that this is probably due to bidirectional pipes 
being a problem. It's also apparently a cygwin issue too via this older 
post.

http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o/msg02878.html

Do the cygwin folks see this problem currently ?

I don't really want to enable parallel jobs so it'd be good to stop this 
code from even being executed.

  * ERROR: media-libs/freetype-2.4.12 failed (configure phase):
  *   (no error message)
  *
  * Call stack:
  *     ebuild.sh, line   93:  Called call-ebuildshell 'src_configure'
  *   environment, line 1004:  Called src_configure
  *   environment, line 3858:  Called autotools-multilib_src_configure
  *   environment, line  642:  Called multilib_parallel_foreach_abi 
'autotools-utils_src_configure'
  *   environment, line 3365:  Called 
multibuild_parallel_foreach_variant '_multilib_multibuild_wrapper' 
'autotools-utils_src_configure'
  *   environment, line 3111:  Called multibuild_foreach_variant 
'_multibuild_parallel' '_multilib_multibuild_wrapper' 
'autotools-utils_src_configure'
  *   environment, line 3059:  Called _multibuild_run 
'_multibuild_parallel' '_multilib_multibuild_wrapper' 
'autotools-utils_src_configure'
  *   environment, line 3057:  Called _multibuild_parallel 
'_multilib_multibuild_wrapper' 'autotools-utils_src_configure'
  *   environment, line 3102:  Called multijob_post_fork
  *   environment, line 3180:  Called _multijob_fork 'post'
  *   environment, line  512:  Called multijob_finish_one
  *   environment, line 3164:  Called die
  * The specific snippet of code:
  *       read -r -u ${mj_control_fd} pid ret || die;
  *

Alan.