On 4 March 2011 00:00, Jim Ursetto <zbignie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 13:00, Jim Ursetto <zbignie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:00 AM, felix winkelmann <bunny...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) >>>> I got a report today that chicken-4.0.0 fails and that it is probably a >>>> parallel >>>> build failure[1]. >> >>> Don't use parallel builds. >> >> Well, that's one option :) Parallel builds at -j2 have always worked >> for me but there has been an intermittent failure issue for several >> months; it always happens with setup-download, so I believe the >> problem lies with a missing dependency there. I will try to take a >> look at this, Marijn. I haven't yet because at -j2 I can simply >> restart the build and it always works. > > Hi there, ghosts of Chicken past. > > Although it's still officially unsupported, Peter Bex's revamp of the > makefile system after 4.6.0 seems to have enabled reliable parallel > builds. I am now able to build repeatedly at -j2, -j3 and -j4. On > the quad-core system I tested on, -j4 is 3.4 times faster than -j1. > > Jim
That's pretty sweet news, not that chicken takes a great deal of time to build ... but faster = better! :D Cheers, Leo _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers