dmake 3.7 bug: loses child on 3b1

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I snarfed dmake 3.7 by ftp, and I'm working to install it on my 3b1.
The bootstrap make seemed to go fine.  The resulting object seems
normal.  I did minimal edits: just to startup.h.  I did 'make sysvr3'.

I installed the result.

Now I'm trying to use dmake to make itself again: the acid test.

It goes okay for several modules, and then at a certain point, it
reports "Error -- lost a child" and dies.  If I repeat the command,
one additional source is compiled, and dmake dies in the same way
on the second.

This is no way to make a program.

The natural questions arise: has anyone seen this before?  Has anyone
had success on a 3b1?  Does anyone have any hints?  Does anyone have
any idea what the message means? (I've tried grepping the source,
but don't see that message anywhere).

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