> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:45:38PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> Ryan Hill <dirtye...@gentoo.org> writes: >> >> > Does anyone know since when (if) running make check with more than one >> job >> > has been supported? IIRC back in the 3.x days it caused issues so >> we've >> > been forcing -j1 here forever. If we could run it in parallel that >> would be a >> > big timesaver. >> >> Jakub fixed it back in 2008 for gcc 4.4. It is indeed a big timesaver. > > Fixed just in the sense that the testing is more parallelized. > I've been using make -jN -k check for more than a decade and I don't > remember problems with that, mudflap tests are flaky and tend to fail > more often under load, but mudflap has only been added in 4.0. > Of course the N keeps changing over time, but currently testing certainly > works with -j48 that I'm using daily. > > Jakub
Do you know if anyone has ever tested that on Solaris ? Lately Solaris is where open source goes to die ( blame Larry for that ) so I figure I may as well give it a shot, but before I do .. tell me know if this little trick works at all. -- Dennis Clarke dcla...@opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dcla...@blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris
