Large parallel glibc builds.

Steve Ellcey sellcey@imgtec.com
Tue Dec 22 19:40:00 GMT 2015


On Tue, 2015-12-22 at 14:25 -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Community,
> 
> I am consistently doing parallel (-j56) builds for glibc
> on Intel Xeon CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz (2 socket x 14 cores x 2HT).
> 
> I have not seen any failures or artifacts that look like hazards
> or races in our makefiles.
> 
> Is anyone else using larger boxes for builds and still seeing 
> problems?
> 
> Cheers,
> Carlos.

I haven't had any problems with parallel builds on my smaller boxes but
I am still defining PARALLELMFLAGS in order to get parallel builds of
glibc.  Is PARALLELMFLAGS still necessary?

Steve Ellcey
sellcey@imgtec.com



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