Jay.Estabrook@digital.com
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:22:11 -0400
>>> geerten kuiper said:
>
> -j<n> does not inherit from toplevel make to subdirectory make: you start
> <n> of them, but each is executed sequentially.
>
> -j does inherit, so you start all makes and sub-makes and sub-sub-makes and
> all tasks at once: this may get you into problems.
>
> in the older kernels the "structure of the toplevel makefile would prevent
> paralellism" at that level. -j would work one subdirectory at a time: a
> system with a reasonable amount of RAM would handle that.
>
> -j<n> would have no effect at all with these kernels: you had to change the
> MAKE= line in the makefile to get a -j<n> to the sub-makes.
Ah, I forgot to say, I typically do this like so:
export MAKEFLAGS=-j
while true; do make clean; make boot; done
This, I believe, makes sure that the -j is inherited by all; right?
And this what I've done when the 2.2 kernel builds fail...
--Jay++
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