On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 01:41:00 -0400
Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> there are implicit rules for generating archives, but iirc, they dont
> work in parallel.
The buggy[1] implicit make rule generates parallel calls to ar(1) for
each file to add, instead of doing the obvious and calling ar once with
multiple file arguments. Funny because the fix is probably as easy to
write as the wording in that section of the make manual.
jer
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Archive-Pitfalls
