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Re: A parallel build patch
- To: drepper@cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: A parallel build patch
- From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 14:34:28 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com (GNU C Library)
>
> hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
>
> > When there is a dependency, you have to explicitly put it in Makefile.
> > Otherwise, parallel build will fail at random.
>
> The only test which depends on others is do-tst-rpmatch and here we
> already have the explicit dependency on do-collate-test. What other
Some tests access the same file/directory in the build directory.
> problems do you see? You know, all the compilations I do here on my
> machine in the office are done on a SMP machine.
>
There is no fixed order for parallel build on SMP machine.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)