Re: parallel makes ?

[Brad <brad@comstyle.com>]

>Oh yes, I got it now :-)
>
>
>I looked at make's parameters.
>Do we start a parallel make by giving it a '-j #' to give make a freedom on how
>many jobs it can launch 'in parallel' ?
>
>
>I did try this on some make situations.
>  - with make in ports, this seems to work great (now :-)
>  - with make for a new kernel, it also works great, and I think I can feel the
>performance gain :-)
>  - but with make build in the source tree, it kinda gets some strange results,
>and it fails :-(
>
>The last probably show some side effect with the parallel execution of 'have to
>be' sequential execs...

the last problem you encountered is probably just a matter of getting the
dependencies right in all the Makefile's throughout the tree ..

// Brad

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