Re: what's up with "make -j N" output?

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:24:14PM +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
>> Script does effectively:
>>
>>       make -k -j5 &>1.log
>
> My automated builds effectively run a number of "make -j 1" builds in
> parallel so I get sane parsable and readable logs.

I do this too, still -j1 is waste of time if only one compile is running
for whatever reason.

> I don't think we give any guarantees for -j 2 or higher even though
> that would be highly desirable when things go wrong.

Meanwhile, bug dissapeared somewhere. :-\
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