Re: Parallelization of shell scripts for 'configure' etc.

[Paul Eggert]

On 6/13/22 18:25, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> It seems to me that bash provides the needed tools -- "( ... ) &" lets
> you run things in parallel.  Similarly, if you've got a lot of small
> tasks with a complex web of dependencies, you can encode that in a
> "makefile".
>
> It seems to me that the heavy work is rebuilding how "configure" scripts
> are constructed based on which items can be run in parallel.

Yes, all that could be done in theory, but it'd take a lot of hacking 
and it's been decades and it hasn't happened.

I'd rather have shell scripts "just work" in parallel with a minimum of 
fuss.