Re: make install / parallel

[NightStrike]

On 1/28/08, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> * NightStrike wrote on Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:24:57PM CET:
> > Does automake allowing doing something like:
> >
> > make -j5 install  ?
>
> It should, yes, in the sense that it should not fail (but the speedup
> may be rather limited).  If you encounter failure and think it's not a
> bug in the Makefile.am files, please report it to bug-automake, thanks.
>
> > I ask because executing /usr/bin/install for several thousand files is
> > incredibly slow
>
> I'm about to fix this (haven't applied the patch to master yet):
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2008-01/msg00070.html>
> You can help by reviewing or testing the patch if you have spare cycles.


>From the looks of things, this will not apply to _SCRIPTS primaries.
My project in question has 98% of its files installed under that
primary (as you may or may not recall).