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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Heads up: Problems with parallel make
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:34:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02cfd113-9e50-7ac9-29f2-0e09eba50f84@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39257fa6-df12-41d0-57fa-e26113a8efc6@cornell.edu>

On 20.02.2023 18:14, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 2/20/2023 12:00 PM, Achim Gratz via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps writes:
>>> Thanks, Marco.  As expected, that fixes the problem for my test case
>>> (building TeX Live).  Obviously it would be better if the make
>>> developers would provide a configure option to use a pipe for the
>>> jobserver, but this is a good workaround if they don't.
>>
>> Does it actually do a parallel build?  I've quickly tested a cmake based
>> project with it and it completely serializes the build.  Reverting to
>> 4.4 resolves that problem.

I noticed the same with another cmake build

make[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1.  Add '+' to parent 
make rule.

but I do not see the message on Autoconf build

> 
> It does for my build of TeX Live.  I just tried 'make -j13 check', and I 
> saw many make processes and many sh processes running at once.  [But I'm 
> currently testing a self-built make 4.4.0.91.]
> 
> Ken

I will build it and test again

Regards
Marco

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-20 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-13 23:05 Ken Brown
2023-02-13 23:44 ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-14  0:38   ` Ken Brown
2023-02-14 16:49     ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-14 21:23       ` Marco Atzeri
2023-02-15 18:09         ` Ken Brown
2023-02-16  7:47           ` Marco Atzeri
2023-02-16 16:49             ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-16 18:57               ` Marco Atzeri
2023-02-16 22:48                 ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-17  2:21             ` Ken Brown
2023-02-19 22:50               ` Ken Brown
2023-02-20 17:00               ` Achim Gratz
2023-02-20 17:14                 ` Ken Brown
2023-02-20 17:34                   ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2023-02-20 19:12                     ` Marco Atzeri
2023-02-20 19:45                       ` Ken Brown
2023-02-20 22:00                       ` Ken Brown
2023-02-20 23:29                         ` Ken Brown
2023-02-21  0:48                           ` Ken Brown
2023-02-27 21:41                             ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-27 22:45                               ` Ken Brown
2023-03-02  6:32                                 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-02-20 17:35                   ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-14  2:33 ` Ken Brown

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