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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] toolchain-funcs.eclass: functions to call compiler
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:17:29
Message-Id: 20100617061717.14c0bee2@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] toolchain-funcs.eclass: functions to call compiler by Mike Frysinger
1 On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 01:41:00 -0400
2 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
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4 > there are implicit rules for generating archives, but iirc, they dont
5 > work in parallel.
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7 The buggy[1] implicit make rule generates parallel calls to ar(1) for
8 each file to add, instead of doing the obvious and calling ar once with
9 multiple file arguments. Funny because the fix is probably as easy to
10 write as the wording in that section of the make manual.
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13 jer
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16 [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Archive-Pitfalls