On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 14:14 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: > ali hagigat writes: > > Does make consider one execution software thread for each command of a > > recipe? or it will use for example all 4 cores of a quad-core > > processor(like by -j8)? > > If I'm not mistaken, it will execute _recipes_ in parallel, not > commands.
You're correct. Each individual line in a given recipe is executed serially. It would be silly to try to run these in parallel. Two separate recipes to build different targets that make believes have no relation to each other, are built in parallel. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[email protected]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.net "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
