Re: parallel builds

Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:16:29 +0200
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Richard Purdie wrote:
> in general we (as in Yocto Project/OpenEmbedded)
> build things using the standard "make -j X", where X is some level of
> parallelism that varies depending on the hardware.

In general, this is not guaranteed to be supported by GNU packages.
The GCS only say that the developer should "try to" make parallel builds work.
[1]

Bruno

[1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Makefile-Basics.html