On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:57:33AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > I've lost some context here. Could someone please remind me why all > that locking stuff is in XFile.pm? After all, the last line of BUGS > says, "Parallel builds via `make -jN' do not work." So why does > XFile.pm worry whether "make -j" works?
`make -j' does not work in the Autoconf source tree. We do cater to the possibility of concurrent `autom4te's, such as `autoconf' and `autoheader' running concurrently in some source tree that is prepared for `make -j'.
