Request for kernel-compile time (advance user only)

[Ian Petersen]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:15 AM, ted leslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  i am sure eventually all major project will compile fine
>  with multijob make.

It would be nice if that comes true, but it might be over-optimistic.
Recursive makefiles are especially difficult to parallelise and AFAIK,
the suite of auto-tools generates recursive makefiles.  Have a look at
"Recursive Make Considered Harmful"
http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/ if you're interested in
more details.

Ian

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