On Thu, 3 Jun 2021, Dianne Skoll wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 10:19:22 -0400 > "Michael P. Soulier" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2021-06-03 10:09 a.m., Dianne Skoll wrote: > > > See the -j option > > > Seems like a race condition waiting to happen. > > Shouldn't be. My understanding (which may be wrong) is that make > calculates the dependency graph first, not in parallel. Then it > executes as many parallel tasks as the -j option asks for, or that > make sense... whichever is smaller. Since the dependency graph is a > DAG, make should, in theory, be smart enough to see that two > dependencies depend on the same node and run only one job to build > the depended-upon node. > > I routinely use "make -j `nproc`" and have never run into any > issues.
this was my understanding as well, i just wanted to hear some confirmation from someone else. rday To unsubscribe send a blank message to [email protected] To get help send a blank message to [email protected] To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
