On 2013/03/29 13:45, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 04:36:31PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > - the current perl Makefiles are not parallel clean. > > > > However I get much less far than this with a parallel build of Perl, > > and the failure I see is a bit inexplicable (tries to build things > > which depend on Configure-generated files before Configure has run, > > even though they are explicitly listed as dependencies) so it's hard > > for me to look into this which occurs much later in the build.. > > If you're willing to briefly explain (either on or off list) to me how I > can test parallel building of perl (without having to restart the whole > build process from /usr/src), I can try to figure out what the problem > is later on today / when I get back Monday from visiting family. Is it a > matter of > cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin && make -jN perl > and seeing if things work out? > > Best wishes, > Ryan
I would normally use this: cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper obj make -jN -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper however your method seems to work fine too (as long as obj is already handled; we only support out-of-source builds). help would be very welcome :)
