[erlang-questions] clarify: multi-threaded make

[Kevin Scaldeferri]

On Nov 28, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Kostis Sagonas wrote:
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>> As far as I know, our Makefiles makes assumption about build order
>> that in general are not safe with the -j option.
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> My experience with "make -j" has generally been pretty bad.
> I would not recommend it to anyone at this point.

If you're talking specifically about OTP, I'll defer to your  
experience.  But, in general, "make -j" works if you have correctly  
declared your dependencies in your Makefiles.  I'd have to say that it  
puzzles me why you could "make assumptions about build order" when  
make provides exactly a language for being explicit about such things.


-kevin