From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 20 9:55: 6 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 09:55:04 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kciLink.com [208.184.13.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB34F37B400 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:55:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [208.184.13.196]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580142E443 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:55:02 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBKHt2g96298; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:55:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14912.62070.148318.480469@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:55:02 -0500 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make -j In-Reply-To: References: <20001219122433.A1961@libero.sunshine.ale> X-Mailer: VM 6.88 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "MN" == Mike Nowlin writes: MN> Imagine a makefile that does something like: MN> 1) start off with "junk.h" that only has "#define SOMEVAL 1" in it MN> 2) job 1 of the makefile runs a perl script that rewrites junk.h MN> 3) job 2 of the makefile is a C prog that includes junk.h and MN> uses SOMEVAL This shouldn't cause a problem if the dependencies in the Makefile are correct, which isn't always easy to do. If it does break with correct dependencies, then make -j is broken. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message