Re: FOSDEM and beyond (next stable release of base)

[Nicola Pero]

> A common case, for example, is building many tools from the same  
> GNUmakefile - each of them created by compiling a file or two.  We  
> don't parallelize building
> the tools at the moment ....

I experimentally implemented this in trunk - for tools.  Please give  
it a go.  You just need to use gnustep-make from trunk, then compile  
using 'make -j N'
(where N is 2 or over, depending on how good your hardware is). :-)

Unfortunately, if you have different tools compiled in the same  
GNUmakefile that share some source files (which seems to be common in  
some projects), these
will break with the code currently in trunk (ie, the build will  
occasionally fail).  I'll implement a workaround later when I get some  
more time.  (if you're hit by this
before I implement a workaround, just avoid the '-j N' flags when  
building - or read the release notes for more ideas of what you can do).

We'll delay 2.2.1 a little while this gets completed and tested - and  
extended to other types of projects (apps, bundles, ctools,  
frameworks, libs, test-apps, test-tools, etc).

WIth this change, 2.2.1 can build some projects much faster than 2.2.0  
(eg, at work I have one where my build time went down from 98 seconds  
to 57 seconds), but
keep in mind that 2.2.1 by default compiles with -O2, while 2.2.0  
didn't, so most likely the average user will find that 2.2.1 compiles  
slower  just because
of -O2.  If you don't want the -O2 flag, use 'make debug=yes'.

Thanks