Re: Testing parallel builds
Am Dienstag, den 09.10.2007, 00:00 +0900 schrieb Michal Čihař:
> Hello
>
> Dne Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:46:46 +0200
> Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> napsal(a):
>
> > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 02:39:59PM +0000, Michal Čihař wrote:
> > > BTW: When mentioning CMake, are there any known problems with parallel
> > > build with it? I just randomly tried it last week and it seemed to be
> > > broken at least in some cases.
> >
> > I reckon I don't know for sure. Like automake I believe you can write
> > extensions that break parallel build quite easily.
>
> Well I'm not aware I'd use anything besides various crap that detects
> libraries and includes. I should probably do my homework and look
> deeper at that issue.
Trivial example: a package that builds a binary which in turn is used to
create some source files for later compile.
If the source files don't have the binary as dependency, your build will
break with parallel mode.
Thomas
Reply to: