lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1998]   [Sep]   [18]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [more markup]  [less markup]  [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: make -j changed behaviour
FromAndreas Schwab <>
Date18 Sep 1998 11:36:56 +0200
"Nicholas J. Leon" <nicholas@binary9.net> writes:

|> On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Benjamin Redelings I wrote:
|> 
|>  # This is a good thing.  To get this behaviour before, you had to do:
|>  # MAKE='make -j4' make -j4
|>  # which was redundant.
|> 
|> But _what_ changed that caused this?

The makefiles were fixed to properly use make targets instead of explicit
shell loops for starting sub-makes.  This means that the sub-makes can now
be started in parallel instead of being forced to run one after the other.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:44    [from the cache]
©2003-2008