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Re: (toplevel) Fix dramatic breakage for ordinary crosses (related to program_transform_name)
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, dj at delorie dot com, drow at mvista dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 29 Dec 2002 06:38:40 -0200
- Subject: Re: (toplevel) Fix dramatic breakage for ordinary crosses (related to program_transform_name)
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <200212290642.gBT6g9d11387@duracef.shout.net>
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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