From 55395ad69187dd8a0c858d09cde0263272cb4182 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Neulinger Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 04:12:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update-readme-devel-for-parallel-make-hints-20020101 suggestions which make parallel make easier to support --- README.DEVEL | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.DEVEL b/README.DEVEL index cfe27c7..4f85da5 100644 --- a/README.DEVEL +++ b/README.DEVEL @@ -7,3 +7,12 @@ make that is not available on all systems. Be careful with prototypes/ANSI-C in code that will be compiled for kernel source. In general, avoid them until we have figured out exactly when/where they can be used safely. + +Do not have build rules that build multiple targets. Make doesn't seem able +to handle this, and it interferes with -j builds. (In particular, build the +rxgen targets individually and not using the flags for building all the files +in one shot.) + +Try to test builds using gmake -j # MAKE="gmake -j #", it seems like a good +way to find missing or order-dependent dependency rules. (Is there a better +way to do this?) -- 1.9.4