Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:31:26AM CET: > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 3/14/2009 6:36 AM: > > > > I have been thinking about this a bit, and the only real solution that > > I've found that doesn't involve other races or adding .NOTPARALLEL was > > to reintroduce a subdir makefile. But then we can put all doc/ rules > > there again; see the patch below. Do you see any other possibilities? > > I'm still thinking about it. Gary originally introduced the non-recursive > make; and for the source files and incremental builds, it makes a big > difference.
The reintroduction of doc/Makefile.am carries only a negligible speed penalty. > But the documentation doesn't have much that runs in > parallel, and making the man page occur in a recursive make doesn't seem > like too big a penalty from my point of view if it avoids the race. I'd > really like to hear from Gary on this issue, though, before pushing anything. Certainly. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ M4-patches mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/m4-patches
