Re: [exim-dev] make fails with -j4

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Author: Brian Candler
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To: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] make fails with -j4
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 04:48:17AM -0500, Phil Pennock wrote:
> The attached patch should be applied with "patch -p2" or, if using git,
> you can fetch the parallel_make branch from the master repo.
>
> I'd appreciate feedback.


(fresh untar)
(copy Local/Makefile)
(apply patch)
$ make -j4
... snip ...
>>> exim binary built


Looks good here - thank you!

I wondered whether make might have an option to build objects in the reverse
order than the default (when there are otherwise no dependency constraints)
- perhaps that would help pick up issues like this.

Cheers,

Brian.