Re: Is it safe to build Vim with "make -j"?

Reply to message «Is it safe to build Vim with "make -j"?»,
sent 14:43:17 01 April 2011, Friday
by Michael Henry:

It is not the official answer, but I can say that `make -j5' works for me and
Gentoo ebuild maintainers did not make ebuild ignore user MAKEOPTS (where number
of jobs is commonly defined), though some ebuilds do ignore MAKEOPTS.

Original message:
> All,
>
> Is it safe to use "make -j" when building vim (either as
> "make -j 2", for example, or plain "make -j" to build with
> an "unlimited" number of simultaneous jobs)?
>
> While it appears to work, I know that Makefiles are not always
> written with full dependencies in place, which can cause parallel
> build to fail, so I wanted to check whether parallel building
> of Vim is known to be safe.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Henry