Re: Patch for port of jobserver to Windows
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.make.windows |
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> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:33:14 +0000 > From: Greg Chicares <[email protected]> > > On 2010-10-07 20:43Z, Troy Runkel wrote: > > I've ported the GNU make jobserver to the Windows platform. > > Didn't the jobserver work on ms windows already? No. Parallel builds with -jN are indeed supported on Windows since Make 3.81, but not the jobserver. The impact is that the sub-Make is always invoked with -j1, unless you explicitly override that in the sub-Make invocation command line. > F:>make -j2 -f j.make > ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 >NUL > ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 >NUL > echo "a" > echo "b" > a > b You have here only one level of recursion. To see the difference, you need more than one.