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Re: Large parallel glibc builds.
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, sellcey at imgtec dot com
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Konstantin Serebryany <kcc at google dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 21:22:14 +0100
- Subject: Re: Large parallel glibc builds.
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On 12/22/2015 09:21 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 12/22/2015 03:17 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 12/22/2015 09:08 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>> I believe PARALLELMFLAGS is still required, I use it in my scripts.
>>> I haven't seen anyone fix this or make it more "just works."
>>
>> It's supposed to be obsolete since 2001, when it was removed from the
>> glibc manual.
>
> That's certainly wrong. It's still used in the top-level Makefile to
> parallelize the $(all-subdir-targets) and others.
I assume it was left in, to support older GNU make versions without the
fancy new job server.
Florian