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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