From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9905 invoked by alias); 28 Jun 2010 11:09:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 9796 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jun 2010 11:09:55 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-ew0-f41.google.com) (209.85.215.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:09:50 +0000 Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so112040ewy.0 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:09:47 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.28.68 with SMTP id l4mr1293829ebc.12.1277723387144; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:09:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.109.2 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:09:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:09:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: make -jn does not work From: Steffen Dettmer To: gdb@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-06/txt/msg00132.txt.bz2 Hi, the documentation states to use `make' to build the software, but first I didn't take it literally. When I type make, my fingers automatically instead write `nice make -j4' because I'm used to. I just wonder if make -jn shouldn't work. With GNU Make, .NOTPARALLEL could be used (in this case, make -j4 wouldn't speed up, but also wouldn't fail), or even better, maybe missing dependencies information could be added to make it known to `make' which things have to be done sequentially. Is non-working -jn considered a bug/limitation and worth a bug report or is this not supported and thus not worth one? oki, Steffen