[syslinux] is syslinux parallel make safe?

Ferenc Wagner wferi at niif.hu
Sun Sep 7 03:49:37 PDT 2008


"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:

> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> 
>> I don't know whether parallel make compatibility is sth you care for,
>> but I feel like the gcc_ok target may ruin it.  And that would be easy
>> to fix by reintroducing the mktemp call like for example
>> 
>> gcc_ok   = $(shell tmpf=$$(mktemp -t gcc_ok.XXXXXX); \
>> [...]
>> 
>> It just occured to me.
>
> I don't see why gcc_ok should break parallel builds (in fact, I parallel 
> build with it all the time.)  The $$$$ in the gcc_ok target gets 
> replaced with the PID of the shell process, which should be unique.

True, I overlooked that.  Sorry for the noise.
-- 
Feri.




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