building with make -j2 ?
Keith Wansbrough
Keith.Wansbrough@cl.cam.ac.uk
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:54:19 +0100
> "Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com> writes:
>
> > The snapshot source distribution has now been updated to include the
> > file mk/package.mk which was missing the first time around.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Btw, does ghc build with "make -j2"? I tried building the
> snapshot just now with it but got a make error at some
> point. I forget to save the build log, but I can easily
> fire up another build if you want to see it.
>
It *mostly* worked for me a month or so ago. I did a single-processor
make until I saw it had started on ghc/compiler, and then hit ^C and
did make -j2 in ghc/compiler. This worked fine, and then I continued
the make with one processor for the rest. Presumably the same trick
would work in hslibs/. I think there's some setup that depends on
implicit ordering, but once it gets going in a directory it's all
fine.
--KW 8-)