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make -jn does not work
- From: Steffen Dettmer <steffen dot dettmer at googlemail dot com>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:09:47 +0200
- Subject: make -jn does not work
Hi,
the documentation states to use `make' to build the software, but
first I didn't take it literally. When I type make, my fingers
automatically instead write `nice make -j4' because I'm used to.
I just wonder if make -jn shouldn't work.
With GNU Make, .NOTPARALLEL could be used (in this case, make -j4
wouldn't speed up, but also wouldn't fail), or even better,
maybe missing dependencies information could be added to make it
known to `make' which things have to be done sequentially.
Is non-working -jn considered a bug/limitation and worth a bug
report or is this not supported and thus not worth one?
oki,
Steffen