From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GNWJZ-0003Ol-LZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:06:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8DF5nWL008671; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:05:49 GMT Received: from outmail.freedom2surf.net (outmail1.freedom2surf.net [194.106.33.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8DF3mQL016499 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:03:49 GMT Received: from snowdrop.home (unknown [62.6.163.66]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9607525E4 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:03:48 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:03:43 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] AutoMake and paralle safe makefiles [WAS: using -j1 with distcc?] Message-ID: <20060913160343.519ba409@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <45081B03.4070607@gentoo.org> References: <20060913143451.GC25497@gentoo.org> <45081B03.4070607@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_c9q9I.oBCXL8iWwZzwXZY3V; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 1a7b9e79-56bc-44a7-99c2-77cd1ebaf4d8 X-Archives-Hash: c3e4dd9d72d7672bfea7c72a5be2dcee --Sig_c9q9I.oBCXL8iWwZzwXZY3V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:51:47 -0400 Alec Warner wrote: | Aron Griffis wrote: | > From bind-9.3.2-r4.ebuild: | >=20 | > Unless somebody can explain how this is valid, I'll go ahead and fix | > the bind ebuilds (where "fix" means "use -j1 unconditionally since | > the Makefiles aren't parallel safe"). |=20 | If I'm using Autotools, aren't they smart enough (given that I | specify the proper headers, and source files and whatnot) to generate | parallel safe makefiles? Or is it a shot in the dark as to whether | it works or not? You can quite easily screw up Makefile.am and generate unsafe code when using automake. It doesn't remove the need to know what you're doing. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org --Sig_c9q9I.oBCXL8iWwZzwXZY3V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFCB3S96zL6DUtXhERAjy0AJ965lfZRuhY4HmQQo4hirR1YQ41VgCfU4g3 2SknzU9YARTggf6uIAsFon4= =UfST -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_c9q9I.oBCXL8iWwZzwXZY3V-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list