* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:14:03AM CEST: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > >>But I have another problem with SUBDIRS. As I mentioned in the previous > >>thread, specifying -j starts building of l1 and src1 in parallel. l1 > >>lasts longer, and src1 fails due to missing l1. So I think I really need > >>dependencies rather than sequence. What do you think? > > > >Which `make' does that? I can't seem to get GNU make to do so. > >(If it's GNU make, the quick'n'dirty solution would be to add > >.NOTPARALLEL: > >to the toplevel Makefile.am. But that helps only for GNU make.) > > Note that he said `-j', not `-j 2', or `-j 8'. Without an argument -j > is something close to infinite parallelism so it should indeed start > considering the next directory as well.
ECANNOTREPRODUCE. Which GNU make version? Over here GNU make-3.80 does _not_ parallelize across SUBDIRs. Regards, Ralf
