Re: [Xen-devel] 05: parallel-make.patch

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Hmm, don't use make world here.
> 
> 'make world' is probably the most widely used target, so we definitely
> need to support it. 
> 
> There's also a couple of other problems:
> 
> * changing all the install targets from install-* to *.install will
> break Rick's rpm package.

I didn't really understyand the point of this. Is *.foo a more
conventional naming scheme, or is it just that you get to use pattern
rules (not a big win IMO)?

> * I'm not sure the extra parallelism will work: We need to stop the
> pristine tree being extracted twice concurrently.

The existing parallelism within each sub-target seems enough to keep a
bunch of CPUs busy. Aggressively parallelising further in the root
Makefile is simply going to make the build system fragile.

 -- Keir


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