building with make -j2 ?

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:13:51 +0100


> "Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com> writes:
>=20
> > The snapshot source distribution has now been updated to include the
> > file mk/package.mk which was missing the first time around.
>=20
> Thanks.
>=20
> 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.

You should be able to use -jN in ghc/compiler (indeed, I use this
regularly) but I haven't been through and fixed up the rest of the tree
to work with -jN yet.

Cheers,
	Simon