From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22130 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2007 20:10:22 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 14 Jan 2007 20:10:22 -0000 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sunsite.dk does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: (qmail 88282 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2007 20:10:15 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 14 Jan 2007 20:10:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 28612 invoked by alias); 14 Jan 2007 20:10:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 23105 Received: (qmail 28599 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2007 20:10:11 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 14 Jan 2007 20:10:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 87981 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2007 20:10:11 -0000 Received: from vinc17.net8.nerim.net (HELO prunille.vinc17.org) (62.212.121.106) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 14 Jan 2007 20:10:07 -0000 Received: by prunille.vinc17.org (Postfix, from userid 501) id 71D4610130DC; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:10:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:10:04 +0100 From: Vincent Lefevre To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Building zsh should work with "make -j2" Message-ID: <20070114201004.GA10583@prunille.vinc17.org> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk References: <20070112235849.GZ22968@prunille.vinc17.org> <070113102141.ZM26285@torch.brasslantern.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <070113102141.ZM26285@torch.brasslantern.com> X-Mailer-Info: http://www.vinc17.org/mutt/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13-vl-r14963 (2007-01-09) On 2007-01-13 10:21:41 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote: > I've tried several different ways to introduce dummy build targets to > force the one portion of the build that is required to be sequetial to > really be sequential, and failed every time. The problem is related > to the way that zsh uses recursive invocations of make with makefiles > that are (re)compiled as part of the outer invocation; it appears to be > truly impossible to create a description of this in make syntax because > the necessary parts of the syntax can't even exist until the outer make > has already decided that it's OK to parallelize the recurive make. Since it is not supported, isn't there a way to disable the parallel build completely in the Makefile? I use the -j2 option systematically. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)