Hello David,
I hear your pain and when reading this got to thinking that separating
clean and reconfigure targets shouldn't be that hard. I came up with
this solution:
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8057537
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8057537/webrev.root.01/
It separates the clean and reconfigure targets from the rest in the root
Makefile and runs them separately with -j1. This also solves the problem
of those targets not working well with the timer and summaries.
/Erik
On 2014-09-04 05:38, David Holmes wrote:
I naively assumed this would work:
make reconfigure images
There should be a way to serialize the top-level set of targets
without serializing all the sub-targets. That way this would work, as
would:
make clean-foo foo
which is something I (used to!) use a lot.
And while I'm still complaining about the parallel activity the build
logs truly are a mess that needs to be fixed. In particular finding
build failures is now quite a challenge. :(
Cheers,
David
