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Re: enable make -j for multilibs
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Cc: newlib at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:35:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: enable make -j for multilibs
- References: <orad8ntl18.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:08:35PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>This patch enables GNU make's job server to work while building
>newlib. It needs $(MAKE) to appear explicitly in the command it
>passes to the shell, otherwise it disables the job server, defeating
>-j completely. An alternative is to start the command with +, but
>that's not as portable. Ok to install?
Cool! I would like to see this.
IIRC, newlib had trouble passing something like 'CC=distcc' to
sub-makes. Am I misremebering this or does your patch solve that
problem, maybe?
cgf