Large parallel glibc builds.

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 12/22/2015 02:40 PM, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> 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?

Thanks for the data point.

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."

Cheers,
Carlos.