Re: make on multiprocessor machines

2006-09-08 Thread Riccardo
Hey, On Thursday, September 7, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Andreas Höschler wrote: Obviously multiple threads/processes try to create the target dir at the same time which leads to the error. This renders the j option useless for us. Is this an issue in gnu make or in the GNUstep make package? Can

make on multiprocessor machines

2006-09-07 Thread Andreas Höschler
Hi all, we tried the -j option of make for the first time to speed up builds of GNUstep projects on multiprocess machines. We are trying this on a T2000 with 6/24 cores. I get the following error: -bash-3.00$ make -j 24 Making build-headers for framework SRFoundation... Creating

Re: make on multiprocessor machines

2006-09-07 Thread Chris Vetter
On 2006-09-07 11:41:30 +0200 Andreas Höschler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Obviously multiple threads/processes try to create the target dir at the same time which leads to the error. This renders the j option useless for us. Is this an issue in gnu make or in the GNUstep make package? Can

RE: make on multiprocessor machines

2006-09-07 Thread Nicola Pero
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 7, 2006 11:41 am To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org Subject: make on multiprocessor machines Hi all, we tried the -j option of make for the first time to speed up builds of GNUstep projects on multiprocess machines. We are trying this on a T2000 with 6/24 cores. I get

Re: make on multiprocessor machines

2006-09-07 Thread Nicola Pero
There might be ways out by using new make features, but at the moment you shouldn't expect 'make -j' to work. I think to speed up compilation, supporting PCH would be an easier task. I need to get my hands on a GCC version = 3.4.x ;-) So we should concentrate on machines with good single