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On Monday 24 September 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>: |
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> > > Because it fails, magicpoint's build system is really old and |
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> > > weird. The comment above should state that, but the leftover -j1 I |
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> > > tried would confuse the reader. Plus the stupid die comments. |
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> > |
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> > most people associate "emake" with "run in parallel" when in reality, |
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> > that is merely one of the things it provides |
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> > if something doesnt work in parallel, you use `emake -j1` ... using |
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> > `make` generally doesnt make sense anywhere |
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> I know the difference, but thanks. That comment has been added because |
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> I tried it with emake -j1...it still failed, so I chose to use make. |
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> And then forgot to remove the comment. |
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i dont see how (in the normal case) `emake -j1` would fail where `make` does |
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not ... they expand to the same effective behavior |
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`emake -j1` would generally turn into `make -j2 -j1` which has the same |
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behavior as the default `make` |
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-mike |
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