Re: progress report on make

2007-12-01 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 06:24:46AM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: > Does the eventual game plan for make -j include the ability to build on > a "cluster" of systems? No. If you're in ports land, you already have dpb for that. For compilers, you have distcc. In fact, I removed whatever code there w

Re: progress report on make

2007-12-01 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Saturday 01 December 2007, Marc Espie wrote: > Well, it's time for an update on how things are going in make-land. > The initial pass at getting make -j in shape was enough to get it to > work in most cases. As usual, when you start down an unused code > path, it also uncovered a lot of issues,

progress report on make

2007-12-01 Thread Marc Espie
Well, it's time for an update on how things are going in make-land. The initial pass at getting make -j in shape was enough to get it to work in most cases. As usual, when you start down an unused code path, it also uncovered a lot of issues, some of them fairly small, others really big. If you re