>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Leishman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> I've noticed that a number of packages include -j2 or -j4 when running Chris> make. Besides being nearly useless on single-processor systems, this can *break* some makefiles in untestable and unrepeatedable ways. I recall when we added such a flag to make at Sequent, since we had transparent multiprocessing. I started blindly trying it on random Makefiles. Many broke. Sometimes randomly. The "random" part is the hard part... *you* may get a good build, but it might break for *me*. Bad. Best to be conservative, if slower. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
