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Re: GCC 4.6.0 Released
- From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave dot org>
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Ryan Hill <dirtyepic at gentoo dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:07:05 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.6.0 Released
- Reply-to: dclarke at blastwave dot org
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:45:38PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> writes:
>>
>> > Does anyone know since when (if) running make check with more than one
>> job
>> > has been supported? IIRC back in the 3.x days it caused issues so
>> we've
>> > been forcing -j1 here forever. If we could run it in parallel that
>> would be a
>> > big timesaver.
>>
>> Jakub fixed it back in 2008 for gcc 4.4. It is indeed a big timesaver.
>
> Fixed just in the sense that the testing is more parallelized.
> I've been using make -jN -k check for more than a decade and I don't
> remember problems with that, mudflap tests are flaky and tend to fail
> more often under load, but mudflap has only been added in 4.0.
> Of course the N keeps changing over time, but currently testing certainly
> works with -j48 that I'm using daily.
>
> Jakub
Do you know if anyone has ever tested that on Solaris ? Lately Solaris is
where open source goes to die ( blame Larry for that ) so I figure I may
as well give it a shot, but before I do .. tell me know if this little
trick works at all.
--
Dennis Clarke
dclarke@opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris
dclarke@blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris