Is a parallel build of Maxima (using make -j N), OK?
Subject: Is a parallel build of Maxima (using make -j N), OK?
From: Dr. David Kirkby
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:46:04 +0000
If one sets something like
MAKE="make -j 20"
to build maxima with 20 threads in paralllel, is this safe? With well written
Makefiles this is, but unless care was taken to make sure there are no race
conditions, this can be unwise.
Does anyone know the status of the Maxima makefile?
We are using ECL as an interpreter. I know building ECL in parallel is unsafe,
so we are not doing that.
Dave