On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:26 PM, David Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On 4/09/2014 7:59 PM, pointo1d wrote: >> >> Hi again David , >> >> On 04/09/14 04:38, 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 >> >> >> I've just discovered this page in the gmake manual - >> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Parallel-Output.html >> - or does this not address the problem ? > > > This option has been flagged by the build folk. The problem is that it is > limited to specific make versions and AFAIK we do not yet use/support that > in our various build systems. So while I can potentially use this for my own > builds, most of the logs I have to descramble are coming from others. >
Nevertheless it may be wort adding a configure option like "--with-output-sync=[none,line,target,recurse]" which will be active if configure detects a make version >= 4 and ignored otherwise. Volker > Thanks, > David > >> Rgds , >> >
