[PATCH] Mark linker Makefile rules for job server build

Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com
Mon Oct 4 20:37:00 GMT 2010


  On 10/4/2010 7:53 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Andi Kleen wrote on Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 07:46:45PM CEST:
>> I agree that having a command line option for make would be best.
>> I'm not sure why make tries so hard to not always pass jobserver
>> anyways.
> Because you can easily mess up the jobserver's state when you use the
> fd's but don't follow the protocol; it might also hang if you keep a
> cookie or maybe even if you keep an fd open, haven't checked.

Hmm maybe the solution would be to implement a more robust protocol
and then enable it unconditionally.

-Andi




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