Re: Detecting parallel builds

2011-04-08 Thread Philip Prindeville
Hi, Didn't hear back, so I assume there is no easy way to detect (currently) a parallel build. With that in mind, could an enhancement be added to facilitate this? Thanks, -Philip On 3/27/11 5:59 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Hi. > > I looked for an answer to this but came up short. I'm

Possible minor bug in manual?

2011-04-08 Thread Federico Sanchez Pinzon
I’ve just found what I think may be a very minor bug in the documentation. I’ve read yesterday the GNU coding standards, and found the next line: from GNU Coding standards: at the end of 6.1 (GNU Manuals): << Please do not use the term “*illegal*” to refer to erroneous input to a computer prog

Re: substantial 'glob' speedup ...

2011-04-08 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Paul, On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 08:53 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > That's interesting. I wonder why the glob expansion is so inefficient; Oh - because it is also testing for existence :-) and also doing a chunk of dynamic memory management with it I suspect. > I would expect it to do the s