Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:46:06 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [TEST] make -j patch Message-ID: <11777.1100641566@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:05:56 PST." <20041116120515.J13866@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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In message <20041116120515.J13866@carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White writes: >On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> >> This patch makes the '-j' argument to make(1) become a global limit >> on number of jobs launched for all submakes in the build. >> >> Today a "make -j 12" may start many more than 12 jobs because each >> submake interprets the 12 without reference to other makes. > >Ah, this is the thing I've noticed with the rescue build where it create >-j^2 jobs. :) -j^(depth of directories) actually, but that is even worse. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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