parallel make, do we have a FAQ ?

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Andreas Tobler wrote:

> Hm, make: Warning: Ignoring DistributedMake -j option. 50% idle.

Well, you seem to use a vendor make, not GNU make, ergo you should consult
the documentation of that one.

> Do we have a FAQ where parallel make is explained? When does it work?
> Only when building libraries?

It works everywhere.  For instance with GNU make I regularly do -j 10
makes (on the right machines of course ;-) ) and bootstraps.  Meanwhile
also libjava is built in parallel.

> Sorry, if this is a FAQ, but on the building section it only mentions:
> make -j 2 bootstrap.

Yes, there doesn't need to be a FAQ.  With the right make it simply works
(modulo the occassional bugs).  I would advice you to simply get GNU make,
and be done with it.


Ciao,
Michael.