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Re: Large parallel glibc builds.
- From: Steve Ellcey <sellcey at imgtec dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Konstantin Serebryany <kcc at google dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, "Florian Weimer" <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:40:06 -0800
- Subject: Re: Large parallel glibc builds.
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- Reply-to: <sellcey at imgtec dot com>
On Tue, 2015-12-22 at 14:25 -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Community,
>
> I am consistently doing parallel (-j56) builds for glibc
> on Intel Xeon CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz (2 socket x 14 cores x 2HT).
>
> I have not seen any failures or artifacts that look like hazards
> or races in our makefiles.
>
> Is anyone else using larger boxes for builds and still seeing
> problems?
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
I haven't had any problems with parallel builds on my smaller boxes but
I am still defining PARALLELMFLAGS in order to get parallel builds of
glibc. Is PARALLELMFLAGS still necessary?
Steve Ellcey
sellcey@imgtec.com