Friday, April 1, 2011

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

Michael Henry wrote:

> 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


"make -j 2" may works. I tried several times without error.
But that's not enough to be 100% sure.

"make -j 2 test" does not work.

-- Dominique

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