Re: feature request: parallel builds feature

2013-05-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 20:38 -0700, Jim Michaels wrote: again, problem solved with what I proposed. think. separate shell window for each job. You can do that today by just writing your recipes such that they start a screen session or xterm or whatever. Those tools allocate and manage their

Re: feature request: parallel builds feature

2013-05-02 Thread Jim Michaels
OK From: Paul Smith psm...@gnu.org To: Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com Cc: bug-make@gnu.org bug-make@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:41 AM Subject: Re: feature request: parallel builds feature On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 20:38 -0700, Jim Michaels wrote

Re: feature request: parallel builds feature

2013-05-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 17:20 -0700, Jim Michaels wrote: I wasn't digressing. I was explaining the point. the concept I am trying to present as a solution to the problem of making parallel stdin for --jobs in gnu make (which currenty doesn't work and is I guess single-threaded) is to make a

Re: feature request: parallel builds feature

2013-05-01 Thread Jim Michaels
request: parallel builds feature On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 17:20 -0700, Jim Michaels wrote: I wasn't digressing.  I was explaining the point.  the concept I am trying to present as a solution to the problem of making parallel stdin for --jobs in gnu make (which currenty doesn't work and is I guess

Re: feature request: parallel builds feature

2013-04-30 Thread Jim Michaels
, 2013 10:56 AM Subject: Re: feature request: parallel builds feature On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 00:42 -0700, Jim Michaels wrote: it currently has a problem with stdin, because at this point there is only one of those, only 1 of them gets it, and the others starve. so if your build needs stdin

Re: feature request: parallel builds feature

2013-04-30 Thread Howard Chu
...@yahoo.com *Cc:* bug-make@gnu.org *Sent:* Monday, April 22, 2013 10:56 AM *Subject:* Re: feature request: parallel builds feature On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 00:42 -0700, Jim Michaels wrote: it currently has a problem with stdin, because at this point there is only one of those

Re: feature request: parallel builds feature

2013-04-30 Thread Jim Michaels
Subject: Re: feature request: parallel builds feature Jim Michaels wrote: I wasn't digressing.  I was explaining the point.  the concept I am trying to present as a solution to the problem of making parallel stdin for --jobs in gnu make (which currenty doesn't work and is I guess single-threaded

Re: feature request: parallel builds feature

2013-04-30 Thread Howard Chu
Jim Michaels wrote: what if you in your makefile are creating files from scratch using echo, based on system configuration information? I know I have to do that in order to create XML manifest files for resources to compile and link in via resource compiler for windows builds. echo writes to

Re: feature request: parallel builds feature

2013-04-30 Thread Jim Michaels
From: Howard Chu h...@highlandsun.com To: Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com; psm...@gnu.org psm...@gnu.org Cc: bug-make@gnu.org bug-make@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 6:55 PM Subject: Re: feature request: parallel builds feature Jim Michaels wrote: I wasn't digressing.  I was explaining

feature request: parallel builds feature

2013-04-16 Thread Jim Michaels
feature request: parallelize make builds. current problem: make is serial in nature. there is room for making it series-parallel. I have been toying with this idea of parallel builds to gain project compile speed (reducing time to a fraction) for quite a while. compiles seem to spend more

Re: feature request: parallel builds feature

2013-04-16 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 01:34 -0700, Jim Michaels wrote: I have been toying with this idea of parallel builds to gain project compile speed (reducing time to a fraction) for quite a while. Can you explain the difference between what you're suggesting and the existing --jobs (-j) feature available