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Re: [RFC] Multi-processor friendly autoconf?
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Peter Eisentraut |
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Re: [RFC] Multi-processor friendly autoconf? |
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Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:10:23 +0200 (CEST) |
Paolo Bonzini writes:
> Here is an idea for writing a multiprocessor-friendly autoconf.
> Basically, the idea is to change the configure phase into a Makefile
> target, and use caching as a way to split it into various sub-targets that
> can be executed in parallel. The shell script might run the "sane build"
> test and then spawn the Makefile.
How will you write config.status and config.log in a serial manner? Use a
bunch of little files and assemble them at the end? If the configure
script aborts with an error, where will the user find the diagnostic
information?
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