Large parallel glibc builds.

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Dec 22 20:22:00 GMT 2015


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



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