Re: make install / parallel

2008-02-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* NightStrike wrote on Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 04:43:23AM CET: > On 1/28/08, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks, I suppose we should special-case _SCRIPTS (and maybe _PROGRAMS, > > too) then for the case where --program-{prefix,suffix,transform-name} > > have not been set. > > >

Re: make install / parallel

2008-02-04 Thread NightStrike
On 1/28/08, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * NightStrike wrote on Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:14:32PM CET: > > On 1/28/08, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > From the looks of things, this will

Re: make install / parallel

2008-01-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* NightStrike wrote on Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:14:32PM CET: > On 1/28/08, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From the looks of things, this will not apply to _SCRIPTS primaries. > My project in question has 98

Re: make install / parallel

2008-01-28 Thread NightStrike
On 1/28/08, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > * NightStrike wrote on Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:24:57PM CET: > > Does automake allowing doing something like: > > > > make -j5 install ? > > It should, yes, in the sense that it should not fail (but the speedup > may be rather limi

Re: make install / parallel

2008-01-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * NightStrike wrote on Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:24:57PM CET: > Does automake allowing doing something like: > > make -j5 install ? It should, yes, in the sense that it should not fail (but the speedup may be rather limited). If you encounter failure and think it's not a bug in the Makefi

make install / parallel

2008-01-25 Thread NightStrike
Does automake allowing doing something like: make -j5 install ? I ask because executing /usr/bin/install for several thousand files is incredibly slow (it takes longer to install than to build each of these files). Running several in parallel may make it go faster, as there's a lot of IO and ve