That is what I thought. BTW. Today is my last day of work here. My next job is not likely to make use of makefiles of any complexity.
So long and thanks for all your help Paul and from everyone else. > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul D. Smith > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 8:02 AM > To: PATTON, BILLY (SBCSI) > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: order and parallelism > > > %% "PATTON, BILLY \(SBCSI\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > pb> I if have a rule > pb> all : b c d e f g > > pb> and I've given the command make -j -l 10.0 ( a 10 cpu server ) > > pb> Suppose system loading will allow 3 of these to execute at the > pb> same time > > pb> Will it be b c d that go first? > pb> Or is it random? > > In this environment it will definitely be b c d that goes first. > > However, it's possible that "b" will finish quickly and "e" will be > started while "c" and "d" are still running. > > Or, "c" could finish first. > > So, although you know in what order things will be started, you can't > really tell which ones will run concurrently. > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: > http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org > "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a > professional." --Mad Scientist > _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
