Serialization dependencies muck up configure-on-demand

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 03:39:32PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Daniel said:
> >Well, I'm not sure how useful of a goal that is; I suppose it would
> >speed up re-making when most directories don't need to be updated or
> >updated substantially.  I don't see a better way without being truly
> 
> Specifically, when nothing needs to be reconfigured, but lots of things 
> do need to be rebuilt, this is very useful. :-)  This is quite a common 
> situation.

Nah; if lots of things need to be rebuilt we can just do one thing at a
time, since each directory would keep all the available make jobs busy. 
The improvement is pretty marginal.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer