Re: Make with "-j8" sometime fail on a single-core machine

2009-11-21 Thread Mike Shal
On 11/19/09, He Yunlong-B20256 wrote: > Hi, Mike, > > Thanks very much for your patient clarification, is "one task" > only done by "one job"? I'm not sure what you mean by "task" here. Make has a concept of a "job", as you can see by searching around the help documentation. I think each

[bug #27714] expansion of $(shell) in target forces serialization of targets

2009-11-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #9, bug #27714 (project make): No, that's not equivalent. First, your GNU make syntax is wrong; you mean "FOO = $(shell echo bar)". And second, as far as I can see from the pmake documentation "FOO != echo bar" is actually equivalent to "FOO := $(shell echo bar)", so it doesn'

[bug #27714] expansion of $(shell) in target forces serialization of targets

2009-11-21 Thread anonymous
Follow-up Comment #8, bug #27714 (project make): # gmake FOO= $(echo bar) # pmake (BSD) FOO!= echo bar ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message sent