On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:09:23PM -0700, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm sure fellow developers building on Windows felt sad that they were
> > left out on the recent build improvements. Rejoice at last, as we are
> > now bringing those to you.
>
> In case you're interested how this happened... AIUI, these
> improvements are because make 4.0 came out and it actually implements
> -jN properly on Windows, and with -jN working it's faster than pymake.
>
> (Well, almost properly, which is why glandium had to fix some things.
> Presumably/hopefully his fixes will end up in make 4.01 soon.)
(FYI, FWIW)
-jN itself works properly. I just had to patch for unrelated issues,
namely:
- a typo that makes $(info), $(warning) and $(error) unreliable at
best, or crashy at worst.
- attempt to execute msys-path programs (e.g. "/usr/bin/install") with
CreateProcess() (yeah, that doesn't work well)
- enable a builtin workaround for sh.exe not working very very well
with quotes in a "sh -c ...." command.
The latter is a #define in config.h that exists for that purpose but is
not enabled by default, the former two are submitted upstream.
Mike
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