From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Dec 4 15:02:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-smp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id PAA20996 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 15:02:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (gargoyle.bazzle.com [206.103.246.190]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA20989 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 15:02:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gargoyle.bazzle.com (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA05334; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:02:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:02:35 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric J. Chet" To: Chris Csanady cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make -j? questions.. In-Reply-To: <199612041815.MAA05291@friley216.res.iastate.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Chris Csanady wrote: > First of all, I remember seeing here recently that there were some problems, > and I was wondering if they were fixed. Also, I know sometimes that it would > fail almost at random, if you have -j set higher. It almost seemed as if there > was some sort of dependancy issue that was ignored by the parallelism. Is > this still the case? > > It would be nice if the -j option was suitable for make worlds and such. :) > > --Chris Csanady > > > Hello When I make a kernel with "make -j8" and I have not done a "make depend" first the parallel make usually fails. I have not attemped a parallel make world. Eric J. Chet - ejc@bazzle.com