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Beware - this may break things!
Authored by: merlyn on May 04, '04 05:33:09AM
Beware, however, that not all makefiles can be used with -j, although the likelihood of encountering such a Makefile today would be rare.

And unfortunately, such breakage will sometimes be undetectable, and random. The worst kind of breakage.

In a past life, I was a test engineer at the first company to use commodity hardware for a symmetric multiprocessing system (Sequent), and when we started "parallelizing" Makefiles, many of them broke big time because of fixed-name temp files for some of the steps.

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Beware - this may break things!
Authored by: krishna on May 04, '04 10:37:35PM
In a past life, I was a test engineer at the first company to use commodity hardware for a symmetric multiprocessing system (Sequent),

Don't listen to him! He's an old dinosaur! What does he know about MacOSX? This is the new world of UNIX!!!

I wonder if you feel so very, very old as I do :-)

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