On 1/28/08, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > * NightStrike wrote on Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:24:57PM CET: > > Does automake allowing doing something like: > > > > make -j5 install ? > > It should, yes, in the sense that it should not fail (but the speedup > may be rather limited). If you encounter failure and think it's not a > bug in the Makefile.am files, please report it to bug-automake, thanks. > > > I ask because executing /usr/bin/install for several thousand files is > > incredibly slow > > I'm about to fix this (haven't applied the patch to master yet): > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2008-01/msg00070.html> > You can help by reviewing or testing the patch if you have spare cycles.
>From the looks of things, this will not apply to _SCRIPTS primaries. My project in question has 98% of its files installed under that primary (as you may or may not recall).
