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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:09:25PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I'm looking at emake, trying to understand what is being accomplished. |
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> It seems useless to me, though I'll be quite happy if told that I'm |
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> wrong. |
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> (1) It claims to "auto-parallel make without the annoying syntax". But |
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> it does nothing to parallelize the make process that I can see. |
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> (2) It uses env, which does nothing in this case. |
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> (3) It uses a variable MAKEOPTS to pass options along to sub-makes. |
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> Isn't that redundant to GNU make's built in MAKEFLAGS (which are set |
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> and passed to sub-makes automatically)? |
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By default, MAKEOPTS is defined at "-j 2", so emake does auto parallelize |
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makes. The reason for emake is that some packages build in parallel, and |
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some don't. Those that do build in parallel should use emake in order to |
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build faster, and those that don't should have a little "doesn't work with |
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emake" comment and just use plan make instead. |
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Best Regards, |
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-- |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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