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Re: building X4 on SMP boxes, fix.



On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 07:29:10AM -0500, Dan Merillat wrote:
> The toplevel Makefile in xc/ wipes out make's jobserver mode.
> (Compacting $(MAKE) and $(MAKE_OPTS) in one variable confuses it.)
> 
> The following patch splits the two out, significantly reducing compile time.
> Even on UP systems, make -j2 is a win.
> 
> This ought to cut some time off those builds.
[a mere 100-line patch snipped]

Intriguing.  I'm quite tempted to try this out for -7.

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