On 08/09/2014 09:54 AM, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> On 09/08/14 12:31, Christopher Gregory wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Well this time around I think that webkit installation managed to make a
>> new record.
>>
>> It took 6 1/2 hours to compile with make -j1.
>>
>> Has anyone managed to actually get this beast to work using multiple cores?
>>
>> The couple of times I have forgotten and added -j2 to make ended up with
>> race conditions and failed compiles.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Christopher.
>>
> 
> I've been building with make -j8 with no issues since version 2.2.0.
> 
> Prior to this version I was using the following (as per BLFS book at the
> time):
> 
> until make -j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
> do
>   if (( $((error_count++)) > 4 ))
>   then
>     echo Too Many Errors
>     break
>   fi
> done
> 
> My current build time is 41 minutes.
> 
> Regards,
> Wayne.
> 

It was a problem with make-3.82 back then. We patched make to overcome
the problem. That said, I can't reproduce the problem with make-4.0.

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