On Monday 24 September 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >  Because it fails, magicpoint's build system is really old and
> > > weird. The comment above should state that, but the leftover -j1 I
> > > tried would confuse the reader.  Plus the stupid die comments.
> >
> > most people associate "emake" with "run in parallel" when in reality,
> > that is merely one of the things it provides
> > if something doesnt work in parallel, you use `emake -j1` ... using
> > `make` generally doesnt make sense anywhere
>
>  I know the difference, but thanks.  That comment has been added because
> I tried it with emake -j1...it still failed, so I chose to use make.
> And then forgot to remove the comment.

i dont see how (in the normal case) `emake -j1` would fail where `make` does 
not ... they expand to the same effective behavior

`emake -j1` would generally turn into `make -j2 -j1` which has the same 
behavior as the default `make`
-mike

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