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. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
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