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Re: (toplevel) Fix dramatic breakage for ordinary crosses (related to program_transform_name)


On Dec 29, 2002, Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> wrote:

> Perhaps you think of "make -j" as an inherently unsafe option.

Nope.  It's just not the default.  If you're using a non-default
option, why can't we ask you to also use another non-default option to
make it absolutely safe?

> I build gcc about 50 times per week with automated scripts.

Then you could tweak your automated scripts to enable the
safest-possible set up, in case you actually find it to be a problem.
I'm yet to hear of any actual occurrences of a problem.  I very much
doubt we're ever going to, even if we disable serialized dependencies.

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