Re: parallelism: job slots vs. levels

2004-09-01 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dj Anyways, dj $ make x make y wait dj cannot always be rewritten with -j. Mm. I don't think I believe that. For example, of your makefile had at the top: .PHONY: all rx ry all: rx ry rx: ; $(MAKE) x ry: ; $(MAKE) y then I

parallelism: job slots vs. levels

2004-08-31 Thread Dan Jacobson
Anyways, $ make x make y wait cannot always be rewritten with -j. $ make -j[whatever number] x y will act differently except for special cases of x and y; probably when both x and y have no dependencies. Anyways, with -j examples added to the manual, we would get on the right track about how to

Re: parallelism: job slots vs. levels

2004-08-31 Thread Howard Chu
Dan Jacobson wrote: Anyways, $ make x make y wait cannot always be rewritten with -j. $ make -j[whatever number] x y will act differently except for special cases of x and y; probably when both x and y have no dependencies. Anyways, with -j examples added to the manual, we would get on the right

Re: parallelism: job slots vs. levels

2004-08-31 Thread Howard Chu
Dan Jacobson wrote: Anyways, $ make x make y wait cannot always be rewritten with -j. $ make -j[whatever number] x y will act differently except for special cases of x and y; probably when both x and y have no dependencies. make x make y wait will only work correctly if x and y have no