Re: [Chicken-users] A fix for parallel build (gmake -j)

[Vitaly Magerya]

> The problem is that the build system is a critical part of CHICKEN and
> it has to be extensively tested on all platforms.  Testing it is a bit
> hard, since even if make is finished successfully, it doesn't
> necessarily means that CHICKEN was built correctly.

Very well. What is the proper procedure then?
Is there some automated testing setup?

Anyway, I volunteer to run any tests on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE amd64.

I just performed a "gmake -j8" build on 4.7.0 sources patched with [1]
(which is the same as before but with $^ changed to $< as suggested by
Moritz Wilhelmy), it appears functional and as far as I can tell
passes "gmake check" (it doesn't seem to print the success/failure
statistics at the end though).

Should I try to adopt the patch from ticket 526 to the latest sources
and repeat the test? I will if this will push the things forward (this
will happen tomorrow though).

[1] http://tx97.net/~magv/chicken-rules.make.diff