Is a parallel build of Maxima (using make -j N), OK?

• Subject: Is a parallel build of Maxima (using make -j N), OK?
• From: Robert Dodier
• Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:44:10 -0700

On 11/27/10, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW, I tried "make -j 32" just a couple of days ago.  This worked, I
> think, and did speed up compilation a little on my Core 2 Duo machine
> since I normally do builds with clisp, ccl, cmucl, and ecl.  Perhaps I
> was lucky.

Parallel make succeeds for me if make is called without a target
(so only the executable is built). make -j <n> dist-gzip (which builds
the documentation) fails, although there is no error message, and
it appears to be on its way out of the doc directory when it quits.
Dunno what's going on there.

> I don't think anyone tries to make sure parallel builds work.  That was
> the first time for me to try that.

Anybody that cares is welcome to submit patches.
I'm not losing any sleep over it.

best

Robert Dodier

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