Re: building with make -j4
>>>> "Gunnar" == Gunnar Evermann
<ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk> writes:
Gunnar> Sean MacLennan <seanm(a)storm.ca> writes:
> Where are you putting the -j4? I have a small cluster I build
with
> and I add the -j4 flag to the Makefile/GNUmakefile.
Gunnar> I just used 'make -j4 beta'. Is that too simplistic?
Gunnar> To be honest I wasn't really interested in saving time, I was only
Gunnar> trying to find bugs in the Makefiles :-)
And since this is a rarely triggered race, it's fortunate that Gunnar
hit it at the perfect moment, and reported the bug.
I think a similar thing happened to me once. But the symptom was just
a mysterious link error that went away after `rm *.o; make'
Martin