Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:30:22 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: INDEX user-friendliness and SMP speed-up patch Message-ID: <xzpwu5mdt69.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20040315103649.GA13718@xor.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Mon, 15 Mar 2004 02:36:49 -0800") References: <20040315103649.GA13718@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: > * Allows parallel INDEX builds (using make -j). The most obvious way > of doing this doesn't work, because I/O from child makes is broken up > into 2k chunks, and output lines from 'make describe' that exceed this > length (*cough* GNOME *cough*) will be intertwined with the output of > other makes, leading to a corrupted INDEX. Instead, I collect the > output from the child make processes in temporary files and > recombine them at the end. Doesn't make -P work as advertised? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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