Re: Bizarro race conditions in the Git Makefile

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 21:14, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Ęvar Arnfjörš Bjarmason wrote:

quoted

Those interested in
poking their eyes can try:

    while nice -n 30 make -j 15 clean all CFLAGS=-O0 CC=gcc; do 1; done

You are asking make to simultaneously build and unbuild everything.
It does not really surprise me that it gets confused.

Does

 while
       nice -n 30 make -j 15 clean CFLAGS=-O0 CC=gcc &&
       nice -n 30 make -j 15 all CFLAGS=-O0 CC=gcc
 do
       :
 done

behave better?

Yes that works. I thought that -j $n would mean that make would use $n
jobs to complete the first target, then move onto the next. Not
execute them all in paralell.

Thanks, and I have no idea about those Makefile/Perl changes.