A common case, for example, is building many tools from the same
GNUmakefile - each of them created by compiling a file or two. We
don't parallelize building
the tools at the moment ....
I experimentally implemented this in trunk - for tools. Please give
it a go. You just need to use gnustep-make from trunk, then compile
using 'make -j N'
(where N is 2 or over, depending on how good your hardware is). :-)
Unfortunately, if you have different tools compiled in the same
GNUmakefile that share some source files (which seems to be common
in some projects), these
will break with the code currently in trunk.
I fixed this, and extended it to cover apps, libraries, bundles, etc.
I haven't done frameworks yet. And aggregate projects need a new API
to decide whether you want to build the subprojects in parallel or not
(a new variable to
turn on parallel building of them might be enough). Once we can build
the subprojects of an aggregate project in parallel, the amount of
parallelization that
can go on in a large source tree composed of fairly independent
directories is really scary.
I'd be really surprised if I haven't broken at least something :-).
Please don't use trunk for a few days if you need stable code.
Thanks
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