On Mon Aug 25 10:40:39 2014, ra...@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy) wrote: > Hi Reinier, > > > > Yes, but it's an idiomatic one, oft suggested; "Unpack and run > > > `./configure && make all check install'". > > > > I don't get it. What is wrong with > > > > make -sj clean; make -sj all; make -sj check; make -sj install > > That doesn't do the same thing; `make all check install' stops if one > of the targets fails to build, not proceeding to the next. You have to > replace the `;' with `&&' in your version to achieve the same with the > shell. (I pointed this out in my original email to the list.)
Thanks. My apologies for the sloppy reading. > To repeat, `./configure && make all check install' is standard usage; > -j breaks this. It would be nice if there was a simple way to achieve > parallelism only within the build of each of the argv[] targets, not > across them. Maybe an interesting use case could be shells that don't support &&? (The CMD.EXE I just tried supports it, to my surprise.) > Cheers, Ralph. -- Reinier _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
