Subject: Re: -j njobs
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Daniel Eggert <danieleggert@mac.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/20/2003 16:40:27
On s=F8ndag, apr 20, 2003, at 15:23 Europe/Copenhagen, Manuel Bouyer=20
wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 02:55:38AM +0200, Mipam wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Any reason not to use -j 6 for example at the execution of build.sh?
>> Anything to be carefull with before doing so?
>
> In the 1.6 branch I'm not sure it'll work properly.
> In current it should work. But there are something bugs in makefiles
> (missing .WAIT) which makes the build fail with -j > 1
>

As far as i know, it only makes sense (i.e. help speed) on=20
multi-processor machines. n =3D number of processors.

/Daniel